<p>hello everyone I’m trying to register for my classes right now (in cas) …I have a couple of question and would appreciate it if someone can help me!! </p>
<li><p>are we ever gonna find out which professors teach which WTE classes or is it just gonna stay TBA on the website? </p></li>
<li><p>are freshman honor seminar classes usually pretty easy? I looked on the course evaluation website and all of them had like 2.0 something for how much did you study and how hard was this course. this just seemed kinda weird to me cuz this is supposed to be “honors”…right?</p></li>
<li><p>is getting a good GPA more important or getting ahead in credits more important? </p></li>
<li><p>as of now i have Conwest, Freshman Honor Seminar, Economics, and I’m trying to decide whether I should take WTE. Would it be too hard? I would like to get rid of these two GE’s my first semester. (Econ wouldn’t be too hard for me cuz I already took it in hs)</p></li>
<li><p>can someone tell me about CLEP testing for NYU? does ANYone do the CLEP tests at nyu? it seems like such an easy way to get ahead in credits. </p></li>
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<p>Thanks!!</p>
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<p>Not sure all NYU colleges accept CLEP, but SCPS does.</p>
<p>CREDIT FOR PRIOR LEARNING </p>
<p>The McGhee Division offers bachelor’s degrees, which are 128-130 credits and associate’s degrees which are 62-64 credits. A student may complete up to 50 percent of their degree by transferring in credits earned at another institution. This means that you may transfer up to 64 credits towards a bachelor’s degree and 32 towards an associate’s degree. For credits to transfer, they must have been earned at a regionally accredited institution and you must have received a “C” or better in the course. Please keep in mind that when transferring courses they must fit into the degree plan that you are pursuing at New York University. In order to receive credits for courses taken outside of the United States a course by course evaluation must be submitted to the Office of Admissions. </p>
<p>If you do not have 64 credits that transfer, there are two other ways that you may earn credit towards your degree, up to the 50 percent maximum credits allowed. You may take CLEP tests, or consider using our experiential learning option to earn credits after you are admitted to the university. </p>
<p>CLEP TESTS
NYU takes certain tests and requires certain grades for advanced placement test. We suggest that you do not schedule any placement tests until you are offered admission and meet with an academic advisor. </p>
<p>LIFE EXPERIENCE CREDITS
Experiential learning is an opportunity to use your life experience to earn credits toward your degree. After you are admitted and all of your transfer credits have been finalized, you should talk with your academic advisor about this option. In order to gain credit toward your degree you will be required to take a two credit seminar where you will learn how to create a portfolio for the course that demonstrates that you have the knowledge required to receive credit.</p>
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<li>Maybe, but they’ll probably change last minute anyway. </li>
<li>Yeah, I think they’re usually not too hard. They’re more ‘honors’ in the sense that you get to learn about cool topics in depth.</li>
<li>Depends on what you’re comfortable with - sure, you might get a better gpa, but then you might squander credits you’ll later want to use on something else. Plus, who says you’ll do bad in a higher level class?</li>
<li>No, your schedule is pretty average in terms of workload.</li>
<li>I don’t know anything about CLEP testing, but I’m assuming you’re in Stern (because of the econ class), and I doubt they’d accept it. I mean, they don’t even accept most AP tests, so I don’t think they’re going to make it easy for you to claim credits. The only ones I ever got were AP credits and some math classes I’d taken at another university before I started at NYU (and the math ones were technically accepted by the math dept, not Stern)</li>
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<p>lol I’m actually in CAS. My third question is about econ actually. I’ve alraedy taken econ ap at hs but got a 3 on the ap cuz i was sick that day. but i know the material really well and it’ll be like a waste of time for me if i take that class again. but of course i only got a 3 on the ap and nyu probably won’t let me skip to econ 2. do u know if they have placement tests for econ or some kinda tests we can take to skip econ 1?</p>