<p>My college didn’t let me place out of chemistry or biology or calculus, even though I had 5’s in all of them. There was some overlap with my high school courses, but halfway through, we were into new material. Helped me some initially, because I was working 30 hours a week and playing a sport…plus I really knew the material well for the next classes in the sequence. I can’t say that I would have jumped right into the higher-level courses as a freshman, even had I been able to. Might have been overwhelming with all the other commitments I had.</p>