Hello,
I plan to apply to Grove @ CCNY (for Fall 2020). The website say the requirements include “One year of physics, with a grade of 80% or better,” but “The physics and chemistry requirements may each be substituted by a year-long college-level non-calculus-based course.”
I haven’t taken physics, for this reason: I go to a very small performing arts school, which didn’t offer any sort of physics until last year, when it began one regents class. At that point in time, I wasn’t considering a math or science related career. Not only was the class new, but the teacher was new to the school. I didn’t want the potential lack of instruction (‘guinea pig class’ on multiple levels) to harm me on the regents, thus I felt discouraged from taking it. This year, it was not a possibility due to scheduling.
Here is my question: does the AP biology class I am taking now serve as a substitute for this requirement? After all, it is a college-level non-calculus-based course, right? I emailed Admissions a while ago, never received a response.
I would hate to think that this jeopardizes my chance of admissions, as I haven’t gotten below a 98 in any science class I’ve taken (98.2 overall GPA, 1540 on the SAT, with 780 on the math section).
Any thoughts?