<p>I have two questions:</p>
<p>1) Are students required to take a chemistry, physics, and biology course to
meet the requirements for the science general education?</p>
<p>2) Can enough AP credits exempt a student from one area of the general<br>
education requiremets?</p>
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<li><p>you can choose from various courses that fulfill the science requirement. check out princeton’s undergraduate announcement.</p></li>
<li><p>no, you could never do that, except for foreign languages.</p></li>
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<p>There are a lot of “easier” science classes such as “Stars for Stoners” and “Rocks for Jocks” if science isn’t your thing. You can also P/D/F some science classes so all you need to do is pass.</p>
<p>Most of the time AP credits don’t DO anything for you here. Sometimes you can place into a higher level course.. only to find out you need the lower level course for your major. As screwitlah said, only a language 4 or 5 is truly helpful.</p>
<p>If you’re doing the engineering program and you get a 4 or 5 on AP chemistry you don’t have to take it.</p>
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<p>what do you mean? can’t we use AP to place out of a course required by our major? </p>
<p>hmm, but at least, major prerequisites CAN be placed out of with AP right?</p>
<p>hey ursel4some1likeu , do you have an example of scenarios where we might place out of a lower level course and THEN find out that we need it for our major?</p>
<p>Here is the princeton ap table for anyone interested. History and English Aps are basically useless here.
[Advanced</a> Placement and Advanced Standing - Princeton University](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/ap/table.xml]Advanced”>http://www.princeton.edu/ap/table.xml)</p>
<p>screwitlah - Yeah, haha, I had a nice personal experience with it. I have a 5 on AP English Lit and was interested in placing out of one of the Reading : Literature Classes (which you can do with a 5) and just taking 205, thinking that I would have fulfilled the requirements to become an English major. But… no. You have to take a 201-204 AND the 205 course. So, while I could place into 205 it doesn’t help me at all if I want to major in English.</p>
<p>edit : this may be the only scenario where something like this could happen.. one of my roommates is taking orgo as a frosh..she’s a molbio concentrator and she isn’t having a problem with having to take intro bio/chem.</p>