<p>DarkKnight - Engineering majors can have the Writing 1 requirement waived with a 750 or higher on the SAT. I think you can also use AP and IB test scores to get waive the requirement.</p>
<p>khalsa, what’s your (planned) major? The basic schedule will be very different between engineers and artsci.</p>
<p>Boomie- you can also test out with a placement test they give during engineering. I have no idea how premeds handle writing 1 though.
All of the bme’s I know who had to take writing 1 took it in either the spring of freshmen year if they had tested out of physics or in the fall of their sophomore year.
In other words, you are, in fact, allowed to take writing 1 as a sophomore.</p>
<p>well I doubt I can get a 7 on my IB test and my writing score on the SAT was only a 730 :P</p>
<p>even so, I’m also doing pre-med, so I’ll need to fulfill the english requirement.</p>
<p>Technical Writing (a required course for engineering students) fulfills the english requirement for med schools</p>
<p>Edit: You take it in your junior year usually</p>
<p>Johnson, I am think about majoring in bio. So that would be artsci</p>
<p>marcdvl- my point was that don’t premeds need a full year? if that’s the case, wouldn’t tech writing only cover half of that? I’m not premed, so I honestly have no clue. But this is something you (darkknight) might want to ask a pre-med advisor. Either way, you won’t be taking writing 1 this fall.
From this, it appears as if washu suggests a full year, with one semester being a composition course (ie tech writing), but then something other than writing 1 could fulfill the rest of that req.
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<p>khalsa- typically, artsci premeds take chem freshmen year, orgo sophomore year, bio freshmen/sophomore year (starting in the spring), and physics either as a sophomore (if you want to take pchem, or just get it over with) or junior year. And calculus tends to be finished by the end of freshmen year too.</p>
<p>Johnson, I’m not sure since I’m not premed either. I do remember at the beginning of Tech Writing the professor said that they wanted to rename it Technical Communication a few years back, but were denied as med schools needed to see a writing course which since some engineers were exempted from Writing 1, this fulfilled. So I too aren’t 100% sure, but just going on what I heard.</p>
<p>Johnson, I found out elsewhere that usually pre-meds use writing I as a fullfillment for the pre-med english requirement. Also isn’t required by all freshmen?</p>
<p>Engineers can test out. Mind you, if you switch out of engineering (even junior year), you do have to take it.</p>