<p>How should my child document college courses taken while in high school? Placement is probably more important than credit. He will likely have:
Math: honors diff eq. , honors linear algebra , two more advanced courses
Computer science: 3 advanced courses, starting with theory of computation
Lang: one year chinese, one year other
He is interested in CS, possibly a 3-2 program.
Courses taken at a solid university, in coordination with high school.</p>
<p>Math placement above Calc III has to be approved by the department. Your son will get a chance to discuss his placement with his advisor during freshman orientation. He will NOT be able to pre-register for any math class above Calc 3 over the summer. (That’s just the way pre-registration is set up.) </p>
<p>When he meets with his advisor, he should have an <em>official</em> transcript (with registrar’s seal if it’s from another uni) showing the course name and number along with his grade. He will also need a complete course description for each class. (List of topics covered, textbook used, etc.) Placement will usually be offered if the material covered is congruent with UR’s equivalent offering. </p>
<p>Credit may or may not be offered for coursework taken at another university. (Department policies vary.)</p>
<p>I would imagine it’s the same thing for comp sci and languages. He will need to contact each department and get approval before he registers for advanced courses.</p>
<p>I would try to have your son contact each department prior to your his arrival on campus and try to get the specifics of what each department wants to see in order or the courses to be considered for advanced placement. Maybe even set up appointments during freshman orientation with each dept he wants advanced standing in.</p>
<p>Thanks. I will make sure that he saves course info for all his university courses (textbook, syllabus, etc). I see that UR does not have a foreign language requirement so credit there is not important, and placement, of course, is by exam.</p>
<p>diff eq and linear algebra would correspond to MTH165, no idea what the other 2 courses are. I assume he’s taken first year calc. if he hasn’t taken it already, he should start in MTH164 (calc3). he should also take discrete math if he hasn’t already, that’s required for CS. don’t bother with CSC171, go right into 172 (spring), possibly even starting in 173 (fall). 171 is easy to get credit for anyway, even some “experience” with programming (in java) will do. depending on how confident he is, he may find 172 pretty lame, too.</p>
<p>as for how to document it, just send UR the transcripts and he’ll get credit within a few months i’m sure.</p>
<p>language placement is on that questionnaire back in april or something. it’s basically just “write a paragraph about yourself in your target language”. if he did that, he’ll find out during orientation which class he got placed into. otherwise, he should talk with MLC during orientation.</p>
<p>Thanks, awb1989. And, yes, he did calc (three semesters, about equal to AP BC ) already. I’ll nudge him toward discete math for senior year. For CS - he has taken a basic Java programming class (online), summer course in theory of computation, summer course in data structures, and does a good bit of random programing on the side. Right now, for example, he is working on Euler stuff.</p>
<p>oh, he’s only a junior? well I would recommend waiting to take discrete math at UR if the discrete math class is at HS or at some community/third tier college, etc. tons of people take discrete math here which is really for the CS major and slack off and do alright on the exams and get the requirement out of the way, but really it’s more important than any 100 level CS class for the major IMO, so i’d recommend really paying attention in it and making sure you take it at a good school.</p>
<p>assuming he took data structures pretty seriously, he will probably find CSC172 to be pretty worthless and might just want to jump into 173 in the fall. in math, he should probably start in 164 (unless he wants to start out in the 170s series)</p>
<p>The university courses are all at a good university, in the ‘more selective’ tier.</p>