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I started at UGA summer quarter.  I figured it would enable me to find my way around (and it did).  I liked summers, they were laid back and uncrowded etc., so I went the next summer, and the next.  I discovered I was short two liberal arts courses, so I had to do a fourth summer and took German Translation, which I needed for grad school, and Psych 101, which was a hoot, a really interesting class with a bunch of freshmen.  And I did some independent study chem thing which was an auto A.

I headed to grad school about a week after I finished classes.  The first day at UNC we took exams all day for placement.  I stumbled into a bar downtown and wanted a gin and tonic only to learn in NC at the time they couldn't serve liquor in bars.

UNC was something like UGA but in a much smaller town with MUCH less "night life".  There were only two bars worth spit in the whole place, there were a few more for townies that students didn't go to.  I kept looking for the "other bars".  

And of course in grad school you go year round anyway.  

I started at UGA summer quarter.  I figured it would enable me to find my way around (and it did).  I liked summers, they were laid back and uncrowded etc., so I went the next summer, and the next.  I discovered I was short two liberal arts courses, so I had to do a fourth summer and took German Translation, which I needed for grad school, and Psych 101, which was a hoot, a really interesting class with a bunch of freshmen.  And I did some independent study chem thing which was an auto A.

I headed to grad school about a week after I finished classes.  The first day at UNC we took exams all day for placement.  I stumbled into a bar downtown and wanted a gin and tonic only to learn in NC at the time they couldn't serve liquor in bars.

UNC was something like UGA but in a much smaller town with MUCH less "night life".  There were only two bars worth spit in the whole place, there were a few more for townies that students didn't go to.  I kept looking for the "other bars". 

And of course in grad school you go year round anyway. 

I didn't take my German translation class until I was working on a PhD. The college I was at didn't offer it, I had to go to the university down the road to take it. That was so many years ago, I don't think I could translate a simple sentence, let alone a document. 

I was a teetotaler in graduate school, so no bars for me. These days, there is nothing like getting home, grabbing a nice cold beer and relaxing out by or in my pool in the evening. 

I had calculus in HS and started college in honors calculus.  It was completely different stuff, I think we covered the basics on day one and then got into weirdness.  We certainly were not learning how to differentiate some equation after day one.  Some folks in there never had calculus in HS and managed to get by.

My HS calculus teacher admittedly was a bit old and weak.

I was one of those in the engineering college - kicked my arse - my high school class of 53 total students had about 10 of us in "senior" math.  The HS math teacher was in her late 60's in 1981.  That didn't help.

It also didn't help that my Calculus prof in college was from India and couldn't pronounce the word zero.  Thick accent and very difficult to understand.

I have excuses....

Reminds me of my org chem class my second year.  We started with folks sitting in the aisles, 185 or so in the class.  We had 33 finish that year.  The rest went to business school or somesuch.

The main class after that was PChem, and I took the higher level for majors, we had 6 students in it, 4 were graduate students doing remedial work.  It was easy gradewise.  The premeds were all taking the lower level course and clawing all over each other for an A.  I heard it was really hard.

UT engineering didn't allow you to place out of engineering physics, or anything beyond the first semester of calculus.  I got 5s on both, but only got credit for Physics for Physics majors, not engineering physics, and only the first semester of calculus.

Also placed out of history and literature, which I wish I hadn't because those would have been really great classes to take at the college level, but there's no way I would have graduated in 4 years if I hadn't, and back in those days, scholarship money ran out after 4.

Purdue has PHYS 152 (Mechanics) and PHYS 241 (E&M). PHYS 152 is basically one of the top weed-out courses for engineers at Purdue. So they're pretty adamant about taking it.

Therefore, you can't test out of it based on AP results. I *was* able to test out of PHYS 152 by taking the final (scored an 88, BTW, which is crazy that I remember that 25 years later!). I think they might have allowed me to do the same for E&M, but for EE majors they actually have PHYS 261, which is E&M for electrical engineering majors only. And there's NO way to get out of PHYS 261 if you're a EE. I remember one test in that class I scored a 59, which was an A with the curve. 

Even worse was EE 311 (Electromagnetic Fields & Waves IIRC), which was PHYS 261 on crack. D is for Done, right? ;-) 

So yeah, I was pretty proud of the fact that I got credit for PHYS 152 without taking it.

Calculus wasn't an issue. My "5" on the AP test was accepted for credit. The problem, though, when you test out of freshman calculus is that they put you in the "honors" version of multivariate calc. Instead of the ~200 people who normally take the class, it was a focused class for about 25-30 of us. Which means you're surrounded by literal geniuses. There was one kid in that class--and it's appropriate to call this college student a "kid"--who was about 12-13 years old if I remember correctly. I just wanted to get out of the first year of calc, not be the "slow" guy in honors multivariate calc!

I also tested out of a year of history with a 4 on AP US History, but for that year to count I had to take one more history class. So I took "History of the Space Age" which was pretty cool at a place like Purdue. 

Reminds me of my org chem class my second year.  We started with folks sitting in the aisles, 185 or so in the class.  We had 33 finish that year.  The rest went to business school or somesuch.

The main class after that was PChem, and I took the higher level for majors, we had 6 students in it, 4 were graduate students doing remedial work.  It was easy gradewise.  The premeds were all taking the lower level course and clawing all over each other for an A.  I heard it was really hard.

I think most programs have that "weeding out" course. At OSU at that time it was Thermodynamics. 

I don't think we can MOVE posts.

I can definitely REMOVE posts.

Maybe @Drew4UTk can weigh in.