>>10905392It depends on the university. All universities require at least an SAT or an ACT score, and they look at those scores, your high school grades, and the rest of your application to decide whether or not you even get in. After acceptance, at least at mine, those same scores determined whether or not there were even more courses you had to take. ie. score below a certain threshold in the Math section, be forced to start with College Algebra or whatever the lower remedial math course is called. Score high enough, jump right to Calculus I.
And then on top of that you have "General Education" requirements for all degrees. You must sit through at least...I don't know, 6 hours of math, 6 hours of science, 6 hours of some behavioral shit, 6 hours of humanities, 6 hours of English (usually Composition I and II - writing), and more. Undergrad was over a decade ago, so I'm just pulling things out of my ass and shit I vaguely remember counseling students with when their actual counselor was either gone or slammed.
We don't just have the one "entry text" - some people come in with IB credits that transfer somehow, some people take AP
Advanced Placement exams that "score them out" of certain courses. I taught kids in high school that ended up testing out of Calc I, Physics I, etc.