<p>Hi i'm entering for the fall class and have signed up for the PittStart may 26/27 but i read today on the engineering pittstart website they recommend coming to a later pittstart if you plan to transfer ap's and that if you do come before you receive scores you need to sign up for the required courses then changes will be made once the university registers the scores. I can't make any of the later ones i work at a summer camp and taking a two day leave is a huge pain as far as meeting camper to counselor ratios. But i do plan to test out of calc 1 and into calc 2. I'm confident i will get a 5, i have a good teacher and her students score very well, but i have a potential schedule planned out with calc 2 and don't want to be forced to sign up for calc 1 at my pittstart and then change my schedule later on, not getting into the classes i had i hoped to with the professors and time slots that i want (and hopefully got at my pittstart). Have any of you heard of any leniency from the advisors with this according to gpa or act/sat scores or placement testing? Also i'm in the honors college and i have had other friends in a similar situation in other honors colleges (Uconn) and they have been able to override the required course with some type of code available only to honors college students. Does pitt have something like this? thank you</p>
<p>We would like to know too because AP scores don’t come available until early July and it could be that many courses are already at capacity if we wait that long. My S also signed up for May 26/27 and is also in UHC (but not engineering like ejhollyer). I’m sure this must be a common occurrence, right?</p>
<p>There are probably not many classes where this is an issue; calculus is obviously a good example of where it is. I think the advisors will place you in the higher level class and if you do not score high enough, you will drop down into the other class.</p>
<p>For science classes, like chem and physics, many science majors don’t take the AP credit because the entry classes are so difficult that it is good to have the review. </p>
<p>Pitt does hold spots for each PittStart, so kids who attend later are not left with slim choices.</p>
<p>My son assumed he would get the 5s to place out of calc and chem and comp sci so he did his schedule accordingly.</p>
<p>His advisor said if he did not place out they would redo his schedule.</p>
<p>Fortunately it was not an issue and he started Pitt with over 20 credits.</p>
<p>thank you donnamom. yes i took the calc wednesday and feel confident on a 5. and md mom i am in physics c but don’t plan to use my credits, because i’m going for mechanical engineering, though i am considering physics 1 honors.</p>
<p>Just ask around about who is teaching honors physics because it was someone new this year.</p>