<p>I was looking through the course info getting ready for CI and learned that you can get credit for some language courses by getting an SAT II waiver. Then I found out most departments like history, math, geog, etc. also offer it but you h ve to contact the department separately. Basically if you have over a certain score you can get credit for general requirement courses! So between my SAT II waivers, AP scores and some dual enrollment courses I took this year, I’m was able to get credit for 15 credits! Of course, all my Dad said was “we’re saving money.”</p>
<p>wait you already contacted all of the departments? how do you know what you get credit for and who exactly do you call?</p>
<p>You can get on each depts website and some of them actually have it listed as to how much your score has to be and which classes you can get exempt from - take a look at the math dept for example. Then I emailed the person that is supposed to be my advisor (I got that info from the CI site) and asked her to let me know if what I had determined was indeed the case. She emailed me back and said it looks like I can have those credits, but she’ll confirm with me at CI. Needless to say, my budget-nuts Dad is very happy!</p>
<p>On a different topic, have you looked at the schedule of classes lists? It looks like a lot of the classes are already closed, so does that mean that by the time we register there will be pretty slim pickings? If that’s the case, I don’t see how we’re supposed to get our freshmen courses in in the first two semesters.</p>
<p>Probably the biggest surprise, and the biggest amount of confusion, for me when I was a freshman was that every class I wanted was closed out. Unfortunately, that’s just the reality of being a freshman pretty much anywhere. You shouldn’t have a problem though registering for classes that you HAVE to take your freshman year. You might get closed out of UW first semester, but they WILL place you in one second semester no matter what. Also bear in mind that if you really, REALLY want to take a particular class, many professors will sign you into it. Just show up the first day and have the form for registration in hand (these forms are somewhere online, but you can also get them at Colonial Central in the basement of the Marvin Center).</p>
<p>waveswatcher - there’s a difference between being exempted from a class & getting credit for it. I’m not sure you can get credit for SATII’s & knowing how spotty advising is at GW, I’d want to verfiy with your school (CCAS, for example) to be sure. The only classes my son got credit for were AP’s & not even all of them (Spanish required a 5 on the AP & he got a 4).</p>
<p>shellfell is right- GW is pretty stingy with credit, so I really doubt they are giving you credit for your SAT II score. One option you might want to look into is taking CLEP tests (I forget what the acronym stands for). GW will grant credit for a certain score on these.</p>
<p>i am relying on this statement under Elliot requirements: “If you took an AP exam, IB exam and/or the SAT IIs, it is possible that you will waive, or receive credit for GW courses. The same is true if you took coursework at a local college while in high school. Please review course waiver charts in the (departmental) sections for more information…” Hopefully GW comes thru for me! If anyone else has experience with this, PLEASE come forward!!!</p>
<p>waves, it says waive OR receive credit. APs and IBs are probably the ones that will give you actual credit, but I feel like SAT IIs will probably just waive the requirement that you MUST take certain intro classes. That is different from granting you actual credit for taking them. It’s similar to being allowed to start at a higher level for a language or something, but not getting credit for having taken all of the lower-level language classes.</p>
<p>Again, I’m not 100% sure on this, but I would for sure call the school and ask.</p>
<p>gwsenior - you could be very right, I’m going to speak to some more people at GW next week. I worked so hard in HS and I wish someone would just cut me a break! But the waiver of some intro classes will at least give me more time to take the courses I’m really interested in, so I guess that’s something…</p>
<p>On another subject - I got on blackboard the other day just to see what it was like and I think I was able to read all of the First Class thing. Was anyone else able to see what I think I saw?</p>
<p>yeah i read a bunch of stuff on blackboard but i wasnt sure if that was first class or not…</p>