So I got accepted in December and just set in my deposit January 12th. I’ve already registered for housing and I set up my Rowan student self service and email accounts. When do you think I should plan on taking the placement tests? Do you think February is too soon or is it never too soon to take it? I was thinking of taking it in 2 weeks. Do you think I should wait or just do it now so I won’t have any problems later? I would be taking it at their testing center on campus.
If you aren’t exempt, I would take it now, while you are in full scholar mode. Get it out of the way!
@NJRoadie What makes a student exempt from placement testing?
I remember reading that a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Chem exam will exempt you.
@toast18 It seems like an AP exam score means the student is eligible to take chem 1. I thought it might mean they could skip chem 1 if they had a high enough AP score, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I was thinking about whether or not it is better to take chem 1, even if you have taken AP chem. But maybe they want science and engineering majors to take chem 1 regardless. ??
https://academics.rowan.edu/csm/departments/chembio/generalChem/page.html
FWIW, I’m also wondering about calc placement. It looks like she’s exempt form math testing, based on SAT score and dual-credit calc. I’m wondering if she might be best off taking calc 1 anyway after a friend’s son did very well in the placement test and then struggled in the course he was placed in.
Things could have changed but I believe “placement testing” was referring specifically to math/english. Exemption was based on your SAT scores. You could google it and see what you find, I’m sorry but I don’t remember.
Per the “Gosh I should take the class” vs. transfer the AP credit - in my opinion - don’t waste the time.
Based on the following experience -
My foster son did take the college class (with chem) and was bored out of his mind. Yeah it was an easy A, but you are in college to learn stuff not get easy A’s! It would have been 4 credits better spent on something new (in retrospect). He got a 5 on the AP exam and tutors chem now, so your mileage may vary (YMMV).
My daughter brought in 28 or 29 AP credits and I have never once heard her lament that she missed out on something by doing so. She was homeschooled until high school, then attended a huge and well regarded NJ public high school.
(just giving context) She is a junior by credits and has a 3.9 GPA at Rowan (although it is only her 2nd year there).
If you earn 4s or 5s on AP exams Rowan accepted and granted course credit as appropriate. You do have to pay to send that info to Rowan, but it is not much and in our case will save us a year’s COA.
So two different topics covered above - standard placement testing which you can exempt by above average SAT scores and AP credit transfer which I advise you to run with 
@NJRoadie Thanks!
@MACmiracle Thanks for pointing that out! We need to speak to an admissions counselor I guess! We’re in same boat, he is averaging above 95 all year in both AP Chem and AP Calc AB, so we were hoping he could move to the next level at Rowan. He decided not to take the AP Physics exams, because he felt that was a class worth repeating since so much of Mechanical Engineering is based on it, but if he has to repeat the others as well, his whole first semester will be a review!