sam is totally correct. the more standardized tests you take the easier it gets to take them. fuckin lame american system.

i figured this out with the psat->sat progression. between taking a practice psat in 10th grade and taking my final sat senior year, my score went up by 240 points. i didnt learn shit in those two years about subject material (outside of a few analogies/vocab i guess). what i did learn was how to skim passages quickly and more efficiently answer those reading section questions. and in math, whenever you deal with an unknown x, never assume it is a positive integer, but test what happens if it is negative or a fraction.

but totally agree with thrax, there is something HUGE to be gained through the stress that is relieved when you can skip those freshman level classes. for us math/science geeks, its priceless to be able to get to college with the knowledge that you wont have to take any english or language courses.

veta, go ahead and state how many credit hours you were given going into college. lets let the real bragging begin.

yeah getting out of gen ed classes is so full of win.

my score only went up 100 points between my psat freshman year and my psat and sat junior year :[

Math and econ are a good combination, chloe.

actsci makes good money. plus i like it. figured it was a good idea.

Econ is such a interesting subject! I love reading books from economists. I'm being totally serious. Freakonomics was great; and I find myself periodically reading amazing insights from Thomas Sowell. And don't even get me started on Friedman and Hayek. (No seriously, BO, don't get me started.)

have you read superfreakanomics? i'm waiting for it to come out in paperback, or to get a bunch of discounts/borders bucks or something before i get it.
Predictably irrational also excellent if you enjoyed Freakanomics.

No I haven't but I'll definitely check it out.

read kapital

If Marx had stuck with the classical economists and not got mixed up with dialectics, he would have done better. Dialectics is not needed to explain the "laws of motion" of economics or any other system.

"I love when people say they're bad test takers. You mean you're bad at when we find out what you know"

I don't think there's such a thing as a bad test taker kate. You either aren't smart and have to put WAY more effort into scholarly pursuits or you are. I personally think not everybody in this country should go to college, it's a huge waste of resources and drives the cost for everyone up.

Here's Mike Rowe's testimony to congress on the subject which I felt reaffirms this view: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/mike-rowe-senate-testimony.html


I love how deadcode tries to discredit how much an AP is actually worth. The fact that Harvard or any top tier university will give you credit for 5s on an AP test should be enough to demonstrate their difficulty. The American History one especially was a huge pain in the ass since it spanned all of American History and covered topics like say the "expansion of presidential powers" and "federalism vs. constrictionism". I'm not here to have either argument, they've been had and by the way the president is now more powerful than he's ever been and the federalists won. I don't know where thraxle got that I was citing the constitution for anything, but the point is if you put it in historical perspective the veto power was not meant to be used arbitrarily. If it were I am pretty sure that our founding fathers would have done that, since y'know a lot of them were presidents. That alone should be enough to prove the point I am making but for some reason skrum is trying to argue otherwise. Anyone who took a college course/AP test on US History should agree.

Also congrats on doing well with APs chloe, they saved me a lot of time too.