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Re: To go to Championships...or not....

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
He has a valid point, many of my peers who placed out of calc and physics classes got ahead for a quarter, then quickly very behind when they found their "college level physics/calc/etc..." didn't really prepare them for college level.

It's "cheaper" to take a class you don't need and pass it then fail the next and have to retake it.
I was thinking the much same thing, earlier this week. So you skip over most of your general education or breadth requirements or some of your basic math/science courses at the cost of getting hit with your sophomore classes earlier. (And I don't think it's just at SDSM&T that the freshmen who complain about homework are told, "just wait until next year, freshman--you don't know how easy you have it"!) If you can't handle the sudden slam of homework, made worse by not being used to the routine and taking "easy" classes while still high school, then testing out of them, then maybe the AP wasn't such a great idea.

I know that I probably couldn't have handled that. I actually retook both Calc 1 and Calc 2, in that order, because I wanted to a) raise my grade in both and b) make sure I knew the material thoroughly. (Unexpected bonuses: got the book for Calc 3 by taking them and confused a professor at the start of the school year.) At the same time, I took a full load of general education courses to help get into the rhythm of college life. It helped a bit.
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