<p>Before completing my senior year in high school, I took some community college classes, all of which transfer correctly--except English 101. It seems that Clemson takes NO ONE'S English 101 course, in fact. However, they do permit students to skip the course if they received a score of 5 on the AP English exam. (Which begs the question, "is an English course at Princeton worth more than a standardized high school exam?") </p>
<p>Anyway, I really don't feel like shoveling out a few hundred bucks (plus an extra $100 for their mysterious "lab fee") for a course that I already took (and got a 100% in.) So, I was wondering, do you know if it would be possible to get out of EN 101 purely on a recommendation? My master scheme is to send a recommendation letter from my antecedant English professor (a high schooler with a college professor recommendation letter should look pretty good, right?) along with some writing samples--one of which got published recently.</p>
<p>So, my questions are these, Pierre-of-infinite-wisdom:</p>
<p>1.) To whom should I send these writing samples/recommendation letters?</p>
<p>2.) Is this even worth it, or is it a futile effort?</p>
<p>3.) Blondes or brunettes?</p>
<p>Are you sure that Clemson won’t take your community college class for credit? Clemson has a website (TCEL - [UNDERGRADUATE</a> ADMISSIONS](<a href=“http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/tcel/]UNDERGRADUATE”>http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/tcel/)) where classes at every college that have previously been given credit for are listed as well as the Clemson equivalent and I’ve seen ENGL 103 listed below.</p>
<p>I think you mean ENGL 103 since ENGL 101 is not a required class, ENGL 103 is haha</p>
<p>If your college is not listed, you need to talk to the English department contact. To take a literature class at another college, I have to send a course description to him and see if it gets credit so he’s the person to contact. The person in the english department to contact, I believe, about this is:
Dr. Jonathan Field <a href=“mailto:jbfield@clemson.edu”>jbfield@clemson.edu</a> office: 606 Strode
Here’s another contact list for the english department: <a href=“Department of English”>Department of English;
<p>If you think sending a sample/recommendation letter will help your case out, send them to him too but a course description is the most important thing. I think it’s worth it. By the way, the course fee is stupid. There is no english lab, the lab fee is for an online program that you have to buy yourself to use and submit essays through that.</p>
<p>Oh, and personally, I change all the time so I can’t give an answer for the last question but at this very moment I would say brunettes.</p>
<p>I checked the list you posted, and it says that it transfers as “Elective Credits Only.” Is that a nail in the coffin, or can I still plead my case?</p>
<p>I would plead your case and add the writing samples/recommendations, but that means there’s probably half a nail in the coffin already so just know you might not win your case.</p>