<p>Also, when you're placing into math classes, get into the highest lvl you can. It's easier to drop down than to jump up into a higher course.</p>
<p>oh ok.. ty for the advice</p>
<p>does anyone know if requesting a dorm is possible?</p>
<p>Yes, yes it is. But I don't recommend it. I requested a dorm my prep year, only to strongly wish I'd let the faculty and deans place me in a dorm that was "right for me," and I transferred the year after. That said, if you feel strongly about having something like a single...</p>
<p>EEK!! I'm really freaked out about getting in Exeter. IT'S SO CRAZY!! I mean, I'm not even that smart. I'm not a total math whiz and I SUCK AT SPANISH!!! So should I take really difficult languages or just take the lowest classes?</p>
<p>bump tenchar</p>
<p>im<em>a</em>azn, there are placement exams and I recommend you take them. Really, don't think of "lowest" level classes as bad ones. I can guarantee you that "lowest" does not mean "easiest" at Exeter, and the vast majority of people start out in those : )</p>
<p>For math, it all depends on what type of math you excel in. What I'm about to say next varies from person to person, of course, but for me the 200s and 300s were extremely hard, mostly because it was a lot of conceptual math. I'm taking 410, Precalc, this term, and it is SO MUCH EASIER. I skipped Algebra at Exeter, but I have a feeling I would have done better in that than geometry. </p>
<p>(For reference, I also suck at physics but rock the biology and chem )</p>
<p>OH, and editing to add: the benefits of taking harder classes: getting to take the AP exams (really, the only reason why I'm taking calculus my Upper year) and high language classes are actually EASIER in my opinion. That's because up until 340 the courses really focus on grammar/sentence structure and I"m just bad at that stuff. For example, in my current French lit class we just had a rousing debate on Rastafarians whereas I was slaving over the plus-parfait just two terms ago : )</p>