<p>My D applied as an "Arts and Sciences / Public Communications" major and was accepted. She would be expected to complete an A&S major as well as a Newhouse field of study, earning a bachelors degree jointly awarded by both colleges.</p>
<p>Are students who apply to Newhouse through this option held to the same entrance requirements as those who apply to only Newhouse? Is there any difference in difficulty to gaining admission to Newhouse (easier or harder) going this route?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how hard it is to complete the requirements of both colleges in four years?</p>
<p>No difference. 75% of a Newhouse student's courses must be outside the newhouse school. We're required to take 65 credits worth of A&S classes. We're also required to take at least a minor in a school besides Newhouse. You can triple major and finish in 4 years. It's especially easy for students who come in with AP credits. I'm a mag major and I have room for at least 2 minors and plenty electives if I want.
My boyfriend's a newspaper/English and textual studies dual major and as a second semester sophomore he has finished all his required courses for his ETS major. He has also taken all the courses he's allowed so far for his newspaper major (you hafta take a lot of them in a series).
No worries, your DD will be fine.</p>
<p>threekids'kid: We will be visiting on Monday (saw your other post), but wanted to find out something...Can all AP credits fulfill the A&S requirements given that the scores are acceptable to Syracuse? There was a question whether Newhouse has different criteria...... Dean Rubin was unsure about this at the info session for admitted students we attended last week......</p>
<p>Great! I look forward to seeing you; please don't hesitate to come find me. My name's Talie.
There's a list of APs that qualify for various classes. Newhouse accepts whatever a&s says because there are no APs that will get you out of a newhouse class (unless they've recently added AP reporting or AP working-in-a-graphics-lab-til-4a.m.). A 4 will get you out of most, a 3 will get you out of some. Only AP Lang will get you out of your first writing class (many people were upset when they found out).
If your score is acceptable to a&s you will not have to take that required course and it will work toward your core.
P.S. word to the wise there are AP classes that count as more than one class worth of credits. AP Mod euro got me 6 credits. My roommate got 12 credits for a math or science.</p>
<p>You made my day...My D already has AP Lang, AP Bio (12 credits???? you must be kidding) and is taking AP Lit, Calc and macro/micro this year.....How does this impact course selection priority?</p>
<p>I'm not sure which AP math/science got her 12 credits, but I believe it was bio or calc BC, so great for your D! It's wonderful to come in with credits. She sounds like a great student--those are tough classes!
As a freshman, she will register the same was as all new students. In her second semester, she should be ahead of her peers, and she will be eligible for classes she wouldn't otherwise be able to take because as far as the system knows, she's not a freshman (that's how I got ahead in my magazine classes).
With sophomore standing, she can also find a way around the no car rule...you know, if her parents are willing.</p>
<p>Haha.....Not sure she will be so willing to dig it out of the snow in the winter......Oh, do I remember those upstate NY winters; one of our friends once had his car literally frozen onto a block of ice 4 feet high......</p>