<p>What do you guys think about using AP credit to skip some courses at Columbia? Do you think I should skip Calc I and II because of my 5 in AP Calc BC? How about skipping right to organic chemistry because I got a 5 on the AP Chem exam?</p>
<p>There are placement tests at Columbia. If you're not sure, take them and see what happens. That's what I'm going to do. Especially since I only took one little AP test anyway in 10th grade. I didn't try to. . . take too many. I'm just against them.</p>
<p>placement tests for math/sci only right? I can't see how you can take a placement test for something like literature/hist. </p>
<p>Also, unless you are majoring in a related field, you don't have any math requirements right? Just a science for the core (which I plan to take psychology) Please say it is so!!</p>
<p>but APs don't help you for literature/history anyway, since you can't get bumped up or anything. They don't need to offer placements tests for those subjects.</p>
<p>It is so, paintedocean. But I had a crazy idea, and I don't know why. For some reason I thought I would be ambitious and keep up the math a little, keep the varied high-school-style range of subjects. Let's see if I do that when I choose my courses. Seems to me if math is competing with some other things, it might lose the competition. I'll keep math in mind, though, as I'm making my selections.</p>
<p>I wish I liked math. I am a black pox upon my asian heritage!
At least I'm still math literate until Calc.
Yay for liberal arts! The math and sci ppl ought to feel special there.
Shout out to the mathphobics! Where my peeps at?
<em>shakes head at self</em>
<em>shakes head at self again for doing the annoying "</em><em>" thing</em></p>
<p>have you been spending time at the Princeton board?
<em>shakes head at paintedocean</em></p>
<p>I'm a mathphobe, but becoming less so over the years as I become better at it. Improvement has increased my tolerance. Maybe I'm just frustrationphobic.</p>
<p>"have you been spending time at the Princeton board?"</p>
<p>no I've never been there...I'm confused</p>
<p>Oh, at the Princeton board they use "**" all the time. I went to threads there where every post had those in them.</p>
<p>I see...
"**"s can be very annoying, yes, but hard to resist sometimes. Those Princetonites think they're so cute</p>
<p>I'm defnitely using my BC credit, but that's probably because i'm defnitely gonna continue with math, and i might use chem for credit, but i would never take organic chem. I also hope I do well on the AP Spanish language cause then i won't have to take any language classes.</p>
<p>Anybody starting a new language even if they could get out of the language requirement?</p>
<p>Yes, I plan on taking about 5 "intro to [Language]" courses because i believe in knowing something in a lot of languages. I generally pick up on languages quickly...</p>
<p>That's a good idea, though. English lit has phrases in foreign languages a lot, and then you can travel and know what you're doing, too. I thought there were requirements like you had to do two years of the same language. I'm thinking about German or French even though I've done Spanish for years. I need a break from Spanish now.</p>
<p>I've taken four years of French, and I'm going to keep going with that, but I also want to start Russian.</p>