Word: placement
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...advanced placement plan, which affects many more students, is not concerned with admission procedure. The program enables those freshmen with strong backgrounds in one or two fields to take upper level courses in these subjects. Besides enabling the freshman to enroll in more advanced courses, advanced placement carries the Office's vague encouragement to him to work for course reduction in his junior and senior years...
Sophomore standing, early admission and advanced placement center around the better prepared freshmen. Because they have completed college-level courses in high school, some incoming students are able to enter the sophomore class, and a few qualified juniors have been able to skip their last year of high school. The early admission and sophomore standing programs eliminate from high school or college a year which the Office of Advanced Standing feels would be wasteful in educational value...
...course reduction program is the only part of the Advanced Standing system which is unique to the College's curriculum. While early admission and advanced placement criteria are determined in conjunction with the high schools or the College Entrance Examination Board, only juniors and seniors are eligible for course reduction...
While there are only 20 students in the program this semester--the largest groups being in history and literature and social relations--when members of the class of '60 become juniors there will probably be a sizable increase. For the 130 freshmen who qualified for advanced placement this past year were notified by Hanson that they were "particularly eligible" to apply for course reduction if they became honors candidates...
...Advanced placement in any field will carry equal weight when Hanson's office makes the final decision on a course reduction plan. Preliminary approval, however, must first be obtained from the head tutor in the department. While holding advanced placement gives one special consideration in the Office of Advanced Standing, is does not theoretically influence the decision of the department. Since Hanson's office is inclined to approve of course reduction programs anyway, the fact that one holds Advanced Placement is not crucially significant...