<p>First of all, congratulations on being admitted to one of the finest schools in this country.</p>
<p>The Vassar website indicates that 4 years of science is preferred. Those of you who were admitted, whether choosing to go or not, could you post how many years of science you had and which science courses you took? Did you take the higest level of science offered at your school? Are any of you planning on majoring in theater?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Need info to decide which is best course to take</p>
<p>9th: Regular Science (my school offers accelerated bio for freshman) H
10: Bio H
11: Chem H
12:Physics H
We have many many many AP science courses at my school, so i was not at all an overacheiver....
im going to major in History</p>
<p>My daughter will be a junior next year and Vassar is one of her top choices. She does not like science and intends to pursue theater professionally but wants a solid liberal arts education in college. </p>
<p>She already has taken Honors Bio and Honors Chem. The school offers AP Bio every other year. She has a demanding schedule (performing arts school with lots and lots of after school rehearsals, etc. and minimum required 50 hrs of service to department per semester.) She is taking 2 other AP courses next year. If she does not take AP Bio Jr year she will not be able to take it Sr year. </p>
<p>She has been in a quandry as to whether even take science all four years or not, but does not want to hurt her chances with Vassar. From your replies the pattern is clear that all of you have taken science all four years, although some of you did not do AP. So maybe the plan should be for her to take science each year, as recommended on the Vassar website, and not worry about whether it should be AP or not.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for answering, she has to make a decision pretty soon. And if anyone else has additional input, it will be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Again, congratulations on being admitted to Vassar and nothing but best wishes to all of you.</p>
<p>My son was accepted to Vassar with three non-honors college prep lab sciences: earth science, biology, and chemistry. He is planning to be a film major and has college credit for 4 classes relating to his passion, film, in addition to 3 other college classes in his area of interest taken without credit. He has other college classes, as well, in the humanities. He has 4 years of math, through precalculous. I think it would be ill-advised to skip both math and science senior year. Additionally, I think your daughter will be in a stronger position for Vassar or any equivalent school with four years of science. Three years is probably mandatory, and I think it is fair to say that just two years (which she currently has) are too little.</p>
<p>Thank you for your input. It is very helpful I really appreciate it. She always has planned on taking at least 3 sciences before graduation and 4 of math. The big question right now was whether to take AP Bio jr year since it is not offered in her sr year, or just stick with Honors Physics or one of the other Honors sciences and take a lighter AP science her senior year or skip it altogether. It seems the "safer" path is 4 years of science, regardless of AP level or not.</p>
<p>It is so sad, how competitive admissions have become!</p>
<p>Good luck to your son in film. That has been my son's passion since he was in 3rd grade. Graduating in May from Brown.</p>
<p>I think that honors physics is as good as AP bio for Vassar --for a humanities major. My older son also goes to Brown and also loves film, but he has found the film department at Brown quite lacking. In fact, he's taking film courses elsewhere. He recently had a meeting with the dean who lamented with him how weak Brown was in film. Vassar is a far better place for a film student --but for our Brown students, there is always graduate school.</p>
<p>What a coincidence! My son is a double concentrator. "Art Semiotics" and "Literary Arts." He loves film but is pursuing creative writing in grad school next year. He will try to get back to film at a later point. He just finished his "honors thesis" for Art Semiotics, a film, which I cannot wait to see. Is your son Semiotics or MCM? </p>
<p>My daughter interested in Vassar will be a theater major.</p>
<p>My son at Brown is a junior, and a double major in Literary Arts and Math. At first he was math and physics, but we are a family of professional writers and the "writing DNA" was too strong. He would have majored in film, in the end, but he greatly dislikes Brown's MCM program and its approach --he feels it is way too theoretical and intellectual, with too much focus on gender issues, psychoanalysis and the like, and very short on the kind of instinct and artistry he feels filmmaking is all about (for him). College is all about changing your mind. He loves Brown but he started out as a math person. If he'd known he wanted to study film he would have gone elsewhere. The creative writing program at Brown is top-notch, however --he's very happy with that piece of it. </p>
<p>My younger son, who will be starting Vassar this fall, plans to double major in English (writing) and film. And my kid at Brown is a bit envious of the film program the younger one will have access to.</p>
<p>i got in with weird science classes. my school only offers ap science classes every other year so it was impossible to have ap bio-chem-physics like they say they wanted. i just sent an email letting them know this.
i took honors integrated science (required at the time for freshmen), honors chem, honors research methods (independent research class), and a.p. environmental science</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who has replied. It has been most helpful. It definitely shows that there is no exact requirement of a particular course, but just that science courses be taken.</p>