<p>For my son's engineering, there's really not a whole lot of choices offered to students if you want to get the degree in 4 years. There is minimal choice--if you choose to challenge the calculus by saying what you took in HS was sufficient & take the next level calc class, I suppose you could, but it doesn't seem to happen much (neither my S nor any of his friends did). Similarly, with physics & CS and even economics (where they're using the text he had for AP). So far, he hasn't said it has been too challenging & you only need a 3.0 to keep your merit awards at his school & they have a 1 year grace period if folks have trouble.
Not sure he'd belong in engineering if he couldn't keep at least a 3.0 anyway. We'll see how things go next year, when he has material he's never been exposed to before (the stuff he's had this freshman year was pretty much stuff he covered in HS in his AP courses).</p>