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...Placement Tests in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Emerson...
...triple aims of promoting advanced placement, creating a three-year program, and enlivening the first year for well-prepared students has severely restricted the program by establishing highly diversified criteria of success. More important, it created complex demands on the mechanical operation of the program which made it very difficult to relate the program to actual educational requirements of undergraduates. The blanket decision to treat the new students exactly like Sophomores solved many uneasy administrative problems which would have been left open by a more student-oriented policy...
...ADVANCED PLACEMENT: a program by which students who have done advanced work in school are given credit for equivalent college courses. Tests are written and administered on a national basis by Educational Testing Service, which also runs the College Boards...
ADVANCED STANDING: the Harvard office responsible for administering advanced placement, sophomore standing, Freshman Seminars, independent study, and early admission. Also a collective term for advanced placement and Sophomore Standing...
SOPHOMORE STANDING: a program by which a person receiving advanced placement in three courses is permitted to enter as a Sophomore in order to treat him exactly as a Sophomore, the University Wales two lower level Gen Ed requirements, the Gen Ed A and physical training requirement, and permits him to live in a House during his first year...