<p>i'm a prospective student at UMD, and i'm probably gonna be doing Engineering in the honors program, which apparently requires a General Chemistry class freshman year.</p>
<p>my question is if i take the Chem AP test in May, will MD accept the credit so i don't have to take General Chemistry? is it really a good idea to skip out on the class my freshman year? for those who have taken it, how is the class?</p>
<p>any and all advice is welcome, thanks in advance</p>
<p>if you're in engineering (other than chemical & bio resource engineering) you don't need later chemistry courses. However, you need general chem. If you have 4 or 5 in AP Chem, you are qualified as ap credit transfer for chem and don't need to take general chem in college (you're done with chemistry forever for engineering). </p>
<p>If you score lower than a 4 or 5, I believe they won't count your credit and you have to retake the course(s). If you got accepted into engineering school as a freshman, you only need Chem 135 - general chemistry for engineers (3 credits). If you are NOT in engineering school, you're not allowed to take Chem 135 and you have to take the general chemistry from chem department which are Chem 130 - general chem 1 and Chem131 - general chem 2 (or whatever the #'s are, they changed it around, it used to be chem 103 and 113). But to fulfill general chem credits (outside of engineering) you need to take 2 general chemistry courses and 2 labs (8 credits total).</p>
<p>So in short, get a 5 on AP chem and you're done. Otherwise, get into engineering school and only have to take 3 credit course. If not, you need to take 8 credit of chemistry total.</p>
<p>ditto to everything chaoses said except for one thing. i am an engineer now, and i believe they changed the system you must have a 5 to receive AP chem credit, a 4 is no longer accepted. don't be fooled, i had a friend who thought she could get out with a 4 and is now taking gen chem for engineers to make up for it.</p>
<p>p.s. for chem135 make sure you get a good professor. i could not stay awake in the class and ended up with a lower grade than i would have liked.</p>
<p>thanks for all the helps guys, thats exactly what i wanted to know.</p>
<p>but for benandjerrys, im assuming you are/were in Clark. any suggestions on good/bad professors that i could keep in mind?</p>
<p>yes i am in the clark school. i had walters. greer's been teaching for a while, i heard she was hard but fair... johnson also taught my year, i didn't hear much about her (?), but what i did hear was good.</p>
<p>Can you still placing out of CHEM135 with AP credit? The websites say nothing of it either way as far as I can tell. Man, I hope you can.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can place out of CHEM135. I’m not sure if they take 4’s but they do take 5’s. At orientation, they encourage freshman not to take the AP credit and to retake the class anyway, but DON’T listen to them. They just do this because some of the 135 prof’s are so bad that they make this class a weed out course! I’m not sure who’s teaching it next year but I had Dr. Friedman, and he was by far the easiest prof to get a good grade in (not that the class was easy, it was still a LOT of work). So basically, STUDY STUDY STUDY and then, after you’re all studied out, STUDY some more for those AP exams. I wish I did when I was in hs, it would have put me a year ahead!</p>
<p>i checked the chart for CLEP exams and it doesn’t say whether UMD grants credit for chem 135 & 136. i’d like to test out of chem, and rather avoid the hassle of taking it again.</p>
<p>on another note: what is the difference between “general chemistry” and “general chemistry for engineers” ?</p>
<p>I’m not sure on any of the CLEP stuff so I cant help you there. Have you tried emailing someone in the department about that? They’ll be able to get you some more accurate and up to date info. And theres probably nothing different between general chem and general chem for engineers in terms on content but here, they give engineering majors a seperate course for everything (such as math140 vs. math220)</p>