<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was wondering how course selection, or I guess more placement, works at Princeton. I've studied the AP Biology material but have not taken the AP test for it (and plan not to). Is this going to be a problem if I want to skip out of the intro. course? Is there a placement test of any sort? Or do they rely on the AP tests?</p>
<p>Thanks so much :)</p>
<p>bump – wondering the same thing</p>
<p>It probably will affect you. Look on their website. There’s a table with a bunch of accepted AP courses and the required AP test scores.</p>
<p>placement varies by department; some are very picky about it, others not. I’m not sure about the Bio department.</p>
<p>Not sure about biology in specific, but some departments have placement tests administered in the first week of classes to mimic the AP test so you can place out of the intro requirement. </p>
<p>From what I’ve gathered, biology is a little more relaxed because there are basically two prerequisites for premed/chem/MOL/EEB/et cetera: EEB 211 (probably the one you’d be skipping) and MOL 214 (not an easy course, and not one I’d recommend skipping). On the other hand, I hear it is next to impossible to skip out of intro physics, unless you have 5s on both AP “C” tests. I’ve talked to a bunch of people and they said, despite having gone through AP Physics, Princeton intro physics was still hard (it certainly was for me, with no AP physics whatsoever!).</p>
<p>it depends on if you want to major in bio— if you want to major in bio they may make you take eeb 211 (the class that the AP test would get you out of). Otherwise, it doesn’t matter as no one cares about pre-reqs. You could <em>probably</em> take an upper level EEB class instead of 211, although I would want to run that by the department to make sure that they are okay with it.</p>