Is it possible to test out of PE
Like taking an MMA class outside of school or dance or running ect.
What do you think ?
That depends entirely on your school. Ask a counselor.
Yes I have, no real answer
I am just spamming everyone at school with emails still no real answer.
And you’re not going to get a real answer by posting here on CC. It’s a school-specific matter.
FWIW, at my school, if you want to bypass PE you need to participate in a school sports team for the length of the PE requirement (2 years).
Edit: It seems this post is now in the Penn State forum, and you are not in high school as I had assumed. In which case, perhaps someone knowledgeable with this college will be able to give you a real answer!
hopefully
Are you already at PSU? If so, you should meet with your advisor. That is what they are there for. They can tell you exactly what you should and shouldn’t be taking. My son already met with his twice this week and he said she was super helpful.
There are many classes at PSU that fulfill the GHA core curriculum requirement, most who don’t want a ‘physical-type’ class tend to gravitate more towards the Biobehavioral Heath classes, or other health classes that cover dietary info, smoking dangers, etc.
Contact your advisor and arrange a meeting to discuss options, no need to worry with it in those first couple of years, plenty of time to fit in a random nutrition class later on.
I would love to know the answer to whether taking an active sport/club outside of class qualifying, so if you get an answer to that from your advisor, please post it here. Would be great if being in Taekwondo club could serve as a GHA credit…interesting.
http://admissions.psu.edu/academics/credit/dsst/substance-abuse-formerly-drug-and-alcohol-abuse/
This will take carel of the “required” credit.
Best of all I dropped my worthless waste of time and money schedule destroying gym class and traded it for an 1.5 hour $80 test.
I have told so many worthless children at my school about this and they just blow it off while at the same time complaining about going to class.
I cannot believe college is supposed to be the place to learn and make you smarter.
Oh by the way advisors are worthless.
It’s like being a marine and asking the VC how to beat them.
You seem extraordinarily angry about being required to take a gym class. Penn State believes in giving you an education in all subjects, not just your major. You’d be a worthless chemical engineer if you took nothing but CHE classes. First you have to take prereqs – chem, physics, all the math required for your major – and gen eds. Some gen eds may be applicable to your major. (Don’t tell me you don’t have to communicate as a ChemE – so English is therefore very useful to you.) Some may not be directly correlated. I took criminology. Will I have to use criminology in chemical engineering? Probably not. Did I learn? YES. Did I get smarter? YES. Hence, college is doing exactly what it’s supposed to be doing.