<p>Asked this in the UW thread, but general advice is appreciated.
Incoming freshman engineering major. Possibility of placing out of intro chem. good idea?</p>
<p>pro: avoid large, weed out course
con: less prepared for more advanced chem?</p>
<p>Do you feel you know the material well?</p>
<p>If you know the material then by all means do it. I did and have no regrets. Plus, unless you are ChemE or MatSE, you wont be doing “advanced chem” anyway.</p>
<p>Even most MSE people don’t use very much chemistry unless you’re doing polymer stuff. Most of the chem I did beyond high school level was done in my MSE classes and not in the extra chem courses I took (was debating between minoring in physics and chemistry, so I took a few extra classes in each).</p>