<p>If you will apply to their engineering program?</p>
<p>Here is the link</p>
<p>Purdue</a> University - Subject Matter Expectations</p>
<p>So if you haven't taken chemistry in high school you can NOT apply to Purdue for engineering? The link says 'required', but is it really only 'advised' that you have a chemistry class?</p>
<p>It certainly doesn't look like a suggestion.</p>
<p>Wasn't chemistry part of your school's science sequence?</p>
<p>...no, it wasn't.</p>
<p>We took a class called Physical Science in the 9th grade, Biology in the 10th grade, and our choice of Physics, Chemistry or Biology again in the 11th.</p>
<p>So I took Physical Science 9th grade. Biology 10th grade. AP Physics 11th grade. And AP Computer Science my senior year. </p>
<p>One semester of our Physical Science class is dedicated entirely to chemistry, but that obviously doesn't matter.</p>
<p>As you said, it does seem to be an actual requirement. Should I contact the admissions office about this? Is that my only option?</p>
<p>Try to get your GC to call and explain your HSs science curriculum and see if you can get a waiver on this requirement.</p>
<p>^ great suggestion.</p>
<p>Alright, will do. thanks.</p>
<p>If it is really a firm requirement, maybe they would let you take it over the summer before freshman year?</p>
<p>^^^Another excellent suggestion.</p>
<p>Definitely call their admissions office. One of my kids applied to a school that required biology, and he hadn't taken it. The school was willing to give him a conditional acceptance, which meant that he could choose between taking the class the summer before he began college or taking it at the college his freshman year. Either way, he would be allowed to enroll in all other classes the same as other freshmen in his major...and as soon as he successfully completed bio his acceptance status would change from conditional to regular. The only difference between him and anyone else would be that if he DIDN'T successfully complete bio by the end of freshman year, the college would automatically dismiss him.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks for the info. It looks like the same thing will happen to me.</p>