<p>While planning my high school schedule, I came across a problem: in my junior and senior year, I will not have any math classes to take since I will have exhausted my school's math curriculum. I have heard that most people take Diff. Equations or Multivariable calculus after Calc BC, but how can one take a university course during school hours? I do not have any transportation because my parents are both doctors and often work consecutive 12-hour shifts. Will colleges look down on me if I don't take math courses my last 2 years of high school? I could do an Independent study, but I am still not sure what it is. Thanks for any input.</p>
<p>I definitely think that you should take a math class, especially if you're applying to colleges as a engineering or science major. Lots of people who finish Calc BC before their senior year either take college classes in the evening (or during the day if it fits their schedule) or take an online class. EPGY offers a bunch of different advanced math classes, though they are pretty expensive. There have been a few discussion about this over the years, especially in the Parents Forum - try searching there for more info. You might also want to post there to get some more replies - some of the parents such as texas137 have experience with some of the different online courses</p>
<p>Edit: I did some searching and another option I found was through the [url=<a href="http://www.outreach.uidaho.edu/eo/%5DUniversity">http://www.outreach.uidaho.edu/eo/]University</a> of Idaho<a href="also%20expensive">/url</a></p>
<p>Look into taking online classes in multivariable calculus and differential equations.</p>
<p>I don't think at all that colleges will look down on you for not taking math classes the last two years of high school if you have exhausted all the options open to you at your high school, provided, of course, that you've still done something productive with your time. I do, however, think that it will help your application to continue to take math. I'd recommend taking multivariable calculus followed by differential equations and linear algebra. That's what I'm doing, at least. The site, tanman suggested, <a href="http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/math/%5B/url%5D">http://epgy.stanford.edu/courses/math/</a>, should be pretty good, although it is expensive, and I haven't had any first-hand experience with the courses. If you don't want to pay that much money, you could do math independent study if you'd like to, and I doubt it would be too difficult for you, but you'd have to be prepared to study pretty diligently. A good textbook should have more than enough explanation for you to get by and if you ever have any problems with the material, there are plenty of online forums where you can ask for help.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the info. I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>is AP calc BC harder than AB?</p>
<p>is BC the equivalent of a calculus II college course?</p>
<p>Calculus AB is the equivalent of Calculus I while BC is the equivalent of Calc I and II. The BC curriculum covers all of the AB material, and also includes (I think) methods of integration and infinite series.</p>
<p>is BC that much harder than AB? or just slightly?</p>
<p>Calc BC is actually a bit easier, simply because much of the material is covered in Calc AB. The new material isn't terribly difficult.</p>
<p>If you take AB and then take BC, its not that hard, like warblersrule said. But if you take BC as your first calculus course (as I think most people who take BC do), then it is a bit harder than AB because it moves through the early material faster so that it can cover the extra Calc II topics.</p>
<p>my teacher said that the only difference in BC is in the third quarter. thats when most of the new stuff comes in. but if you're a senior you're kinda lucky since your gpa won't suffer that much first semester (AB class) and ap exam scores arent gonna hurt you later since you've already applied to college. but the credit is still nice haha</p>
<p>AB students are unlucky in our school. the BC teacher gives the same BC tests to Ab studetns, because he's too lazy to give other tests.</p>