Admission into Wharton after taking calc at a community college

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Hi! I am taking pre-calculus in my senior year of high school. With that being said, I am going to be taking calculus at my local community college. I just wanted to know if anyone else has gotten into Wharton while taking calculus at their community college. I’ve read some posts of admission officers calling prospective students who did not take calculus, and telling them to take calc at a local community college. In those cases. The AO’s say that they cannot count it in their review of ones application, but they make a note of it. I just wanted to know if I should call them and tell them that I plan to send my transcript after I complete the class at my CC? Or if I should use the additional space on my common app to explain? Thank you

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I don’t think it would matter if you take it after senior year. A decision on your application would have been made before you could even enroll in the class. I don’t think there is anything that you need to explain in your application.

And if you do take calculus once you have been accepted to a college and are looking to get credit you should check in advance to see if they will accept a CC course (my S’s college would only take courses from an accredited 4 year college once a student has been accepted).

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you would also need to double check that taking a summer course before you start doesn’t make you a transfer student

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Its matriculating in another degree program that can make an applicant a transfer, not one summer class.

OP, agreeing with Happy1, you can indicate the plan in the app, but they can’t “count” it because it’s an idea, not set. And while your spring grades matter, to keep an admit, no one’s checking grades in August.

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Penn’s definition of transfer student is at https://admissions.upenn.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/preparing-for-admission/transfer-admission/eligibility-guidelines .

However, whether a summer-after-12th-grade calculus course would fulfill Penn Wharton’s calculus requirement is another story and should be asked directly.

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MODERATOR’S NOTE:
Closing thread. You have waaaaay too many threads that are a variation of a theme, and repetitive posts are not allowed.

From another post, you said:

So really, your better option is to find a way to take precalc the summer before senior year rather than calculus after senior year. If you want advice on how to find a resource for precalc, whether online or at a local college/HS, then that question should be made in an existing thread.