First on the agenda is to sign up for your Statistics course, ST101H. This course is restricted to Statistics majors, Environmental Science - Statistics (EST) majors, and others by invitation. All incoming freshmen in Statistics and EST should take ST101H, even if you have taken statistics in high school.
The most common first mathematics course is MA141 - Calculus I. Finding the right math course is very important to your success in college. You can find out about placement in math on the Math Admissions Placement Page.
You may not have your scores yet from the SAT II or your math AB or BC tests. If not, go ahead and register for the course that corresponds with the test grade you think you made. When the scores are in, you can change to the correct course.
The freshman English requirement at NC State is one four hour course, ENG 101. About half of the new freshmen will take ENG101 in the fall, the other half in the spring. When you first open up your schedule, you may have an ENG101 course preregistered for you. If you have it, don't drop it unless you call Dr. Woodard first. It is hard to get and most of you need it. If you have advanced credit for English, please check the CHASS Placement Page.
COS 100 is the orientation to college course for Physical and Mathematical Science students. The Engineering equivalent, E 115, is an option, but COS 100 is preferred since you will be working with other statistics, mathematics, and science students.
A BS degree requires 15 hours of Natural Sciences, 12 of which must be courses that have a lab associated with them, either included in the course or as a companion course. You can select from a wide variety of courses in the biological sciences, chemistry, physics, astronomy, and the marine, earth, and atmospheric sciences. Note that BIO181 (and its lab, BIO181L), ZO 160, and CH101 are prerequisite to many other courses, so would be good courses to take in your freshman year if you think you might eventually be interested in applying statistics to problems in biological, environmental, or medical sciences or engineering or genetics.
A BS degree requires 21 hours of Humanities and Social Sciences. The precise distribution of these hours is given in the degree requirements . You can choose from among the arts, music, history, the social sciences (psychology, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, or cultural geography), you name it!
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