<p>This makes me happy :) Obviously I'm not going to jump into a subject that I have no clue about, but there a few classes that I really want to take at some point (heeellooo summer classes! woo!) and have a grip on the idea, but no prior class and no interest in doing the intro class</p>
<p>yea most profs have a reason for having a prereq...</p>
<p>in math 310 the prereq is only math 132, but we did stuff with multivar excessively so on the first day the prof went through and integrated e^x^2 multiple multivar ways and scared a bunch of the ppl who weren't properly prepared away from it.
prof parshall, who teaches the history of math courses, requires 351 (lin alg) as a prereq for her classes, but she only cares that you have an adequate background in proofs; when i was going to take her class last semester (before it conflicted with everything) she told me that i could take her class since i had her for 354 already which gave the same proof preparation.</p>
<p>a simple email to the prof will clarify those prereqs; and no, they don't check, but don't screw yourself over if there is one by ignoring it. with that said, why DO you have to take a placement test? no one ever questioned my calc iii or diffeq credits or preparation... then again im not eschool.</p>
<p>I agree, and math and science are a bit different. But anthro/polisci/art/etc classes I think it matters a smidgit or two less.</p>
<p>Eschool is gay like that. They outright denied me credit for Phys I (141R or whatever) because my GC signed me up for the wrong AP test. They wouldn't let me talk to the professor or take a placement or anything. They were just like "nope, take it again."</p>
<p>So yeah, my Clac III and Lin Al classes weren't dual enrollment, so I have to take a test to get credit, to make sure I know what I am doing.</p>
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Eschool is gay like that. They outright denied me credit for Phys I (141R or whatever) because my GC signed me up for the wrong AP test. They wouldn't let me talk to the professor or take a placement or anything. They were just like "nope, take it again."
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<p>It's not just a bureaucracy in terms of what test you take. Physics B and C are very different tests.</p>
<p>With regards to placement exams, there are very few placement exams like that offered - the correct place to go instead is a professor teaching it this semester. You can most of the time work out to just take the final exam with the class or the like and have that count as a placement test.</p>
<p>yeah, I know the difference between B and C. But I studied for the C exam. The people in the E school said I would have to take it again no matter what.</p>