<p>I have a question for one of the informed readers.
It has to do with core requirements and my daughter. We have looked over all of the requirements, and how you can test out of them.</p>
<p>What is unclear is If you get a high enough score on SAT ! or !! math, you do not have to take the required math. Does that mean you also get credit for that course, or you just fulfill that requirement? Same for writing. If you have high enough on ACT, you do not have to take writing. Do you merely get exempt, or do you get credit.<br>
I saw somewhere on an earlier thread that you pay for credits for AP. I understand that. Can you pay for credits for the classes you test out of. </p>
<p>Sorry, we are from oos, and this site has been a tremendous help for us to learn. Please, once again, inform us.
Thanks</p>
<p>You can very easily get credit for English RHE 306 with an SAT or ACT writing score and Math 305G with and SAT II Math Level 1 or Math Level 2 subject test scores. Six actual credits. Your advisor can help you claim the credits during Orientation; make sure UT has your official scores from the test agency before you go to Orientation. You pay for these the same way that you pay for AP credit. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mec/cbe/cutsat.html[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mec/cbe/cutsat.html</a></p>
<p>If you are not a science major who needs a good freshman physics class, it is worth noting that they’ll give you credit for a year of physics plus labs with decent SAT II Physics scores, too. My D had had a class in honors but not AP physics and took the SAT II in Physics the June after she graduated; wasn’t hard to get high enough scores to “count.”</p>
<p>Midwest mom</p>
<p>Thank you for clarifying. As always, your posts are extremely helpful.</p>
<p>By the way, can you explain the mid west mom part. Are you from the mid west, live there now, or what. Where in the mid west. </p>
<p>Just wondering after reading all your posts.</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>If I am correct she is from Ohio and her daughter is currently a UT student.</p>
<p>Live in Ohio but FROM Minnesota (and go back often - husband is from there too so we have a lot of relatives there) and had never been to Austin til 2008
And spend too much time on CC
Second of the 2Kids_ is a h.s. freshman so we are still thinking about colleges in general</p>
<p>so why UT midwest mom? seems like she could have gotten similar experiences at UM or Ohio…</p>
<p>did your daughter get merit scholarships? just seems UT is too costly to pay for given the quality of the education (unless she’s in one of those ranked programs?)</p>
<p>She is an Arabic major, and the Arabic program at UT is unbeatable. Strong faculty and astounding depth and breadth of coursework available.</p>
<p>OP - sorry to hijack the thread but your question has already been answered 
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<p>OP - I would add that if you are pre-med…that it would be best for you to NOT test out (even with AP testing) from the core-pre-med-requirements. I’m not sure how Texas med schools feel about testing out of pre-med courses but I know top med schools dont like it. </p>
<p>Midwest: do you have family ties to the middle east? if not i think it’s incredible that your daughter wants to tackle such a tough language and culture.</p>
<p>She’s heading to Lebanon for six weeks this summer, her first trip the Middle East. I agree, Arabic is really hard to learn. And the spoken dialects! Very difficult. It does seem like a lot of the students who take Arabic have lived in the Middle East or have family members who know how to speak Arabic. No ties to the Middle East in our family. I think the immersion during the summer trip and classes will help with her fluency. When she first started learning Arabic she had a book that told how a student how to say each of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, but for some of the letters, it said, we can’t really explain how to say this letter; find someone who speaks Arabic and have them say it for you. MidwestDad2Kids_ and I are amazed. And now I will stop talking about this because and it could embarrass her that I am talking about her on line…</p>
<p>Back to our regularly scheduled show.</p>
<p>socaldad42, hope you have figured out everything you need to know about core credits! 
Remember UT will let you CLEP out of psychology or sociology if that is helpful to you.</p>
<p>Thanks again. We now understand the process.</p>
<p>mwmom, keep up the informative and good work.</p>
<p>i am sure I will be back with more questions in the future.</p>
<p>This site is a great resourse. Thanks to all who contribute with quality info.</p>
<p>Hook em Horns</p>
<p>I know this may not be the right place to ask my question, but creating a new thread would be unnecessary. I was looking up the general/suggested curriculum for my major and it said that I should take CH 302 (Principles of Chemistry II) in my first semester of freshman year. The pre-requisite for CH 302 is CH 301, but I did not take the AP Chem test nor am I planning on taking the Chemistry Test for Credit during orientation to get credit for CH 301. Is the recommended curriculum assuming that we should already have credit for CH 301, or am I able to skip directly to CH 302?</p>
<p>Sorry - don’t know!</p>
<p>that’s ok, MidwestMom. from what I’ve read online, I may have to take CH 301, but that would probably be the smart choice since my last chemistry class was in freshman year. I was just asking to confirm that. I’m very concerned that I may be too behind since I’m starting at the basic level in biology, chemistry, and physics.</p>
<p>Well if it’s a pre-req then you cannot register for CH 302 without credit for it, the computer won’t let you.</p>