<p>I’m freaking out here.</p>
<p>Sparknotes definitely has some good review on Math and Chemistry placement tests. You should check it out. Also, Collegeboard has some good ones too.</p>
<p>Thanks, but will reviewing just a little assure me to place into Calc and Gen Chem?</p>
<p>It all depends on how well you retain information and understand it. If you didn’t take Calculus in high school…you may need quite a lot of help…study hard though! If you’re doing CAP, maybe the calculus course at your CAP school won’t be too difficult if you end up having to take it there. That’s usually the case.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for all the help! I didn’t take calc in high school, but I aced my pre cal course during junior year. This past week I reviewed all the basic stuff, like the unit circle, trig identities, etc.</p>
<p>Good luck!!!</p>
<p>I’ll be doing CAP at UTSA next fall, and I have no regrets about doing it. However, I know I won’t be staying at UTSA past freshman year like alot of CAP students do since they don’t have an aerospace program, which is what I’d hope to major in. Does anyone know what I’ll need to take at UTSA/how high of a GPA I’ll need to be accepted into Cockrell School of Engineering the next year? I had a friend tell me that aerospace engineering is the most difficult major at UT so I’m not sure what to expect.</p>
<p>CAP students need to understand that they were rejected from UT for a reason. They do not have the skills to make it here.</p>
<p>^^ Wow, that was really harsh. I’m guessing you don’t have the skills to simply understand that this is not always the case…</p>
<p>^ I do have the skills
<a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/CAPreport-CAP08.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/CAPreport-CAP08.pdf</a></p>
<p>So I beat the average of top-10 percent students with 1500+ on their SAT (supposedly the “smartest” on campus) by .4 and yet I don’t have the skills to succeed at UT?</p>
<p>AirForcePilot,
I’d recommend you start a new thread asking about the UTSA placement tests. I know parents were freaking out about the math test at orientation in 2009, and I heard of kids missing the course they wanted by one point. An option might be to take pre-cal at a CC this summer and argue that it would be a pre-req for calculus at UTSA. I did this at a lower level with my daughter, who took dual credit College Algebra in high school and wanted in Pre-Cal. I asked what the pre-req at UTSA was for Pre-Cal - yes, it’s College Alg. - so she didn’t have to take a placement test. Pre-cal was an easy A. You could take it and then Calc. I your second semester. You are limited on courses you can take for CAP anyway.</p>
<p>ilovetexas11111,
No, I seriously don’t think you have the skills…you have no idea how many geniuses got turned down and offered CAP because a top 8% kid took a spot…and could you NOT use a link to do your arguing for you??? Those statistics seriously don’t speak for everyone. You definitely don’t know me.</p>
<p>I placed into Calc and Gen Chem… but wow… after orientation, I realized I should’ve gone to A&M.</p>
<p>AirforcePilot-- why do you think you should have gone to A&M? I’m asking because my son will be making the choice between CAP and A&M next year (in all likelihood).</p>
<p>Here’s the thing. CAP is an alright program if you don’t have many AP credits. If you have too many (5+) then you’re really limited by the classes they offer. The students are very average as well. I used to go to a very competitive school, and I wasn’t in the top 8, so I go CAPed. Many students at UTSA are from the top 50-80 of average schools. However, the biggest problem is registering for classes. I simply wanted to take General Chemistry, Biology, Calculus and English. Is that too much to ask? For CAP, yes. I went to the first Orientation, and already the best professors were taken up. I got to choose Calculus and Biology. But ALL the Chemistry labs were filled. My advisor then put me into Gen. Chem But she said if I don’t have a lab the first semester, I can’t take Gen Chem II the following one. So now I have to pray that someone will drop out of chem lab, so I can take that spot. I can’t believe that there’s a chance that I won’t be able to take General Chemistry at UTSA. For English, there’s another problem, and I can’t take it. It’s too complicated for me to state why. But overall, UTSA’s facilities are amazing, the dorms are one the best, but the whole registering process is madness. It’s just very hectic. If your son is going into pre-med, engineering, or business, he should refrain from joining the CAP. Just go to A&M, and transfer. But you should ask more people. And if someone reading this can reply: Is there really a chance that I won’t be able to take Gen Chem this year?</p>
<p>Thanks for all the information. It is very helpful to know he might not be able to get the CAP classes he needs. I hope you get the classes you need.</p>
<p>Going into the lion’s (or longhorn’s) den, but if a student has the honors college alternative at Texas Tech versus CAP at UT, then I recommend going with Tech Honors College (or an honors college at another major state university). Tech Honors College kids get first pick at class registration starting as a first semester freshman; small classes - 25 or less - for the introductory liberal arts courses (versus the couple hundred students in the usual freshman/sophomore classes), student research with faculty, preferred admission to Tech’s medical school, etc. Tech Honors College students usually have majors in various areas - engineering, business, architecture, etc. - along with being in the Honors College. Of course, UT in general has a larger and stronger alumni network than Tech which can be helpful in finding employment. However, Tech grads do fine as well. A personal anecdote, an Administrator in the Honors College knew a recruiter for a Fortune 250 oil field services company who regularly interviews students at Tech and put my son in touch with him. My son has been working at that firm for a couple years now. CAP as a freshman at a campus other than UT-Austin versus getting all the perks and privileges of an Honors College at Tech (or U of H or Texas State, etc.) from day one. Not a hard choice for many students.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> bump?</p>
<p>Wowwwww ilovetexas11111.</p>
<p>I hate to be rude, but what I hate even more is hearing ignorant people like you speak. You talk big for going to a school that is 75% top 8% students. I don’t know if you realize this, but your rank doesn’t necessarily determine your ability to succeed in college, let alone if you deserve to be there or not. You know what annoys me about Texas? It has this self-absorbed “prestige,” yet most of the students are extremely average. But they do get a few amazing gems and because of that suddenly you’re a genius as well! Don’t get me wrong, the school itself is great and I plan to go there myself after doing CAP at UTSA, but SOME people have their heads up their butts. Know where you stand and where you compare to other schools, when it comes down to it you can get just as nice of an education at A&M for most majors AND they accept the top 10% instead.</p>
<p>Also, do you care to explain the CAPed students from the Texas Academy of Math and Science? Or do you even know about the program at all? These students are the intellectual gems of society, students that receive perfect scores on the math portion of their SATs and do organic chemistry for fun, as my friend who attended there jokes. They leave high school their junior year to take on an extremely rigorous course load while earning college credit. In simple terms, it is very hard to maintain a good GPA there. UT CAPed so many students there my friend’s year and these students ended up receiving acceptance to schools like Vanderbilt or Carnegie Mellon! It irks me the way Texas freaking works! And then to say that you have better skills than these people, ha! For that matter, I could probably make better grades than you. I took on a full gifted/talented/AP class work load all throughout high school while being involved in numerous extracurricular activities and I got CAPed because I decided to be well rounded instead of taking eight honors credit classes. Next time before you say something completely ignorant you should probably broaden your base of knowledge and not use a link to justify your completely ignorant statement.</p>
<p>Or maybe that was just a ■■■■■? On a college forum? Who knows these days.</p>