<p>Hi again everyone! I was wondering if some older Jumbos could, again, give some advice on past experiences in classes- this time, for the introductory bio course. Could anyone who's taken in shed some light on the class, how it's taught, how material is tested, and how it compares to AP Biology. </p>
<p>Also, in comparison to chem 1, is bio the better freshman course to take?</p>
<p>Look at chem 1 thread on this forum. Tuftsstudent answered all your questions about Bio 13 and chem 1</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/1516109-chem-0001-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/1516109-chem-0001-a.html</a></p>
<p>If you’re looking for more perspectives, try in the Tufts Class of 2017 group on Facebook</p>
<p>Are Math or English or Physics placement tests needed if you already got 5 on APs for Lit and Calc AB, Physics B? I know there is a Language placement test. If you got 5 on Spanish AP, can you skip the placement test or still have to have the test no matter what you got on the AP?</p>
<p>As far as I remember my son had only language placement test. He used his AP credits for math and English. Keep in mind Tufts only allows students to use AP for 5 courses.
He didn’t have AP language credit, so in not sure if you still have to take the test if you do</p>
<p>only 5 APs?! did not know that. Thanks! I thought as many as you had taken.</p>
<p>Unfortunately not. But you don’t have to make a decision which one you will use right away. I think a lot of premeds decide not to use their chem AP credits since no one probably wants to start with ORGO. When my son did Chem 11, they covered the whole year of AP chem in the 1st week.</p>
<p>Well, that’s an exaggeration. Chem 11 is the same material as Chem 1 / AP Chem, just more in depth.</p>
<p>You can use only 5 AP credits towards graduation, but you can use unlimited numbers of them to place out of classes. A 5 on the AP Spanish exam places you into Spanish 22, so you will probably want to take the placement exam to see if you can’t just place out of Spanish 22 and be exempted from the requirement altogether</p>
<p>“TuftsStudent”, this is what my son told me about Chem 11.
I thought that Chem11/12 combination goes further into chemistry, not just deeper. For the last month of chem 12 they were doing ORGO. Does chem 2 cover ORGO also?</p>
<p>I can’t really remember, actually. Certainly it will go further, but not so much that all of Chem 1/2 is covered in a week.</p>
<p>I actually said that they covered a year of high school AP class in a week, not chem 1/2.</p>
<p>If a student does double majors, will he have two advisers from each major? So the adviser will coordinate the course loads? I have no idea how this works.</p>
<p>momworried: Maybe my and my friends’ high school chem classes were sufficiently advanced, but in my mind, a good AP Chem course should cover everything taught in Chem 1/2.</p>
<p>fromcalifornia: Yes, a double major declares each major independently and requests a major from both departments. They don’t communicate, and I think the student only actually has to check in with one of them each semester. It’s on them to keep in touch with both, and I think most people do that pretty naturally. Advisors don’t really coordinate course loads; they mostly are there to give a second opinion and advice once the student has a preliminary idea of what they want to do.</p>
<p>Tufts requires 34 credit to graduate. On the distribution list, it requires 6 credits for the 2nd language. If a student used AP (score 5) to place out to spanish 22, does it mean he only needs 34-5=29 credits to graduate? Most likely not. It just means he can use those 5 credits for other courses, right?</p>
<p>TuftsStudent, you said you used bio AP for bio14 course. Does it mean it will show Bio AP credit on Tufts transcript? Will it put the course name (bio 14) which is substituted by AP on the transcript?</p>
<p>Yes, indeed. A 5 on the AP Spanish is worth 1 Tufts credit towards graduation and exemption from 5 courses worth of language requirement.</p>
<p>My transcript reads:</p>
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<p>So not really apparently, but I know that if you ever need to prove that Tufts considers you to have completed the full intro biology sequence (for medical school for example), the Dean or relevant advisor can write a letter to that effect and that will suffice everywhere.</p>
<p>Math 12 = The old numbering for Calculus 2.</p>
<p>“TuftsStudent” where is this written on your transcript? Is it somewhere on Isis? My son only has access to his semester grades and GPA. I was also wondering where APs are recorded.</p>
<p>This is on the old SIS’s unofficial transcript.</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend some interesting and good (not so hard) distribution courses, humanity, art or culture courses for the freshman student? Not sure if there is ‘central’ place to see all ‘intro’ course names in each department. Thanks!</p>
<p>If your son is doing premed, psychology 1 is a good course to take. It’s a prerequisite for a lot of courses later on. Is not an “easy” class but I don’t think it was extremely difficult. My son didn’t complain about it. As for the rest, it really depends on your son’s interest. If he takes a course that someone will recommend as “easy” and he’s really not interested in it, he won’t enjoy it and won’t find it easy. When he gets to orientation week he should look at the catalog of courses that’s available to him and the name of professors. Once he picks something he likes that fits in his schedule he should look at ratemyproffessors.com to see the difficulty of Proffessors. My son found the site very useful.
There are plenty of courses for various interests. A lot of music and film courses fit the art requirement and they’re not hard. But your son has to like music and film. A lot of really good history courses that fit humanities and world civ requirement, but he needs to like history.</p>