<p>I'm enrolling at Berkeley in the fall and have already fulfilled the first half of the R&C requirement by scoring a 5 on the English Language AP my junior year. I'm currently in an AP Lit class right now, but am already signed up for 3 other AP test so chose not to take the Lit AP. My question is -- is it worth it to try and find a way to take the Lit AP to see if I can get a 5 and place out of the second half of the R&C requirement? </p>
<p>If not, how difficult is it to gain permission to waive out of the second half of the requirement. Is it even worth it to? Are the R&C classes interesting enough regardless? I'm a potential English major, if it makes any difference.</p>
<p>I think its pretty difficult to waive out of the 2nd half of R&C if you don’t have the AP scores or transfer credit from another college. It’s something like you have to provide writing samples from “writing intensive” upper division courses and apparently they gauge it against the highest standards of college writing. I would just take the AP test to see if you can pass out of it because it seems like you have strong writing skills.</p>
<p>You should just take the AP Lit test if you still can. It will save you so much trouble when you need to get some classes and they’re filling up/already have a wait-list in Phase I (R1B classes are almost always Phase 1). (Personal experience.)</p>
<p>I believe there are a few special r1a/r1b classes (r50? offered only in the spring semesters) in the English dept. that count towards the English major, so you wouldn’t necessarily be behind a class. It would be easier if you tried for a 5 on AP Lit though.</p>
<p>thanks for the input, guys! I’ll try for the 5 on AP Lit. Unless there’s anything particularly redeeming about the R&C classes that I’d be missing out on…</p>