<p>Um quick question. I was placed into Basic Comp. as an engineering student and I do know that this would place me behind the 4 year (hopeful civil engineer) track.</p>
<p>I was wondering about placing out of the class? I heard that there is an in class writing assignment the first day, but I was wondering if it is near impossible to place out or if it were easy to pass out into the Expos. class? I mean is this an assignment where they want to see if we can cluster many fancy words? Use amazing literary devices, such as metaphors and analogies? Write condensed statements and get to the point? There's many ways a person can go about with writing, but which do they really want?</p>
<p>It won’t put you behind the 4 year track. I don’t really know how the class is since I took neither, but your grade in expos, according to many, is heavily influenced by your professor.</p>
<p>By the way, CivE is a very funy major! I’m not a CivE, but I took a course from the CivE Dept., and it was such an interesting class.</p>
<p>@Sixflags: Are you positive on that? I was hoping actually to be free on the summers, so I really don’t want to take any summer schooling, and I thought Basic Comp might hold me down.</p>
<p>What I meant was, if you decide to take basic comp, you can still graduate in 4 years without taking summer courses. You’ll just have one more class to take during your senior year (or whatever year you choose to take the missing course) than everybody else. I know some people who took basic comp and then expos during their freshman year.</p>
<p>if you like the write papers then take basic comp in fall and then spring which is what most engineers do if they didn’t get placed in expos.</p>
<p>I took basic comp in fall and took expos in the summer at a local community college. Was probably the easiest class i took. The grade doesn’t transfer over but the credits do. SOE does allow this.</p>
<p>SOE may allow you to take Expos at another cc but if you were to drop out of SOE (and I’m guessing about 50% do) and transfer into SAS you will then have to take Expos at Rutgers.</p>
<p>Yes you are right, but from what i saw from Rezey’s post i assume they are passionate about engineering where they might be one of the students that don’t get kicked out of SOE or transfer to SAS.</p>
<p>Good luck and you can take expos whenever you want if you don’t need it as a pre-req for other courses. Some science courses require you to be in expos or past basic comp to take that course but most engineering courses might. I don’t know about CivE, i am BME.</p>