<p>I'm trying to find a residential, classroom taught, summer program for AP Calculus AB prep for a rising High School Senior who is taking AP Calc AB this fall.</p>
<p>Late July (July 14th earliest) & August time frame - it could be one, two or three weeks and the location is not important for the right program.</p>
<p>Anybody able to recommend something? Is Calculus 1 an appropriate preparatory course if offered at a local community college over the summer? </p>
<p>I think Calculus at community college will be the equivalent of AP Calculus AB.</p>
<p>AP calc AB is supposed to be the same thing as calculus 1, so I’m not sure why you would see it as “prep”. It’s a little unclear what you are really looking for. Pre-calculus would be prep for AB calculus. But that’s a yearlong class. It would be hard to cover that material in a week or two of summer school. Are you looking for a substitute class for pre-calculus? Or just some extra practice?</p>
<p>you’re right sorry I wasn’t very clear - the AP teachers at the High School told us that they have to move pretty fast with the material and you have to keep up - so I thought it might be good if my daughter had already covered some / all of the material before and was somewhat familiar with it in a consequences free environment, and she will also find out what she is struggling with and can seek out extra help - she has already taken Pre-Calc A as a junior this year and has a B so AP Calc is going to be a challenging course for her - I think I’ll suggest she enrolls in Calc 1 at the community college if a residential program can’t be found.</p>
<p>If might not be a very goog idea to take calculus at comunity colege over the summer. Summer csession is just 6 weeks and they will cover one year school material. The grade will be counted towards her GPA. I would just hire a tutor to help her next year.</p>
<p>Not sure why it would count for the High School GPA if she is taking the class as a non-credit student over the summer? Am I missing something? Sorry if I’m being stupid…</p>
<p>All comunity college grades have to be reported to colleges. At least here in our state. All core classes if taken at cc get reported at HS HS Transcript ( at least at our school )</p>
<p>interesting…even if registered as a non-degree student?
What state? I don’t think out local HS even accepts credits transferred in - we are in CT</p>
<p>My D took chemistry last summer at cc. We sent a transcript from cc to her HS. When she got back to her HS in September, she did not have to take Chemistry at HS. She is taking physics this year as a sophomore.</p>
<p>Aha - ok - I don’t think our local HS wants or accepts cc transcripts - no one I know locally has done this - but an interesting idea nevertheless - thank you</p>
<p>A bit more research - turns out she can “audit” the course - which bascially means she can sit in and get expsoure to the material without submitting graded papers etc.</p>
<p>There must be some online lecture series for calculus that she could work through. I think your time frame of 1-3 weeks is going to be prohibitively restrictive. College classes may not appear on her high school transcript but they are part of her college record, so you want to consider that. Audit may be the best approach, if you want a live class.</p>