<p>Tom nailed it above. DD1 took a Calc class in a local CC during summer and pretty much everything Tom wrote was the case. The flagship U she attends will not transfer anything higher than Calc 2 from a CC. In her case she compared the syllabus between the two and found the CC actually taught more material…</p>
<p>The most interesting difference is that in college, the Calc class had 10% of the grade as homework while in CC it was 4 times that, 40%. But when we say homework we mean Kumon style online, a humongous number of problems per day on the web site. </p>
<p>Since I’m Elbonian and my wife is Asian and neither language is very useful in the real world (she’s from one of those expansion countries :)) our girls are doing more useful languages; one is nearly bilingual (French & English - heavy duty individual tutoring for years + school) and the other has also done French and will be continuing it in college. Due to their Eurasian looks they’re rarely identified correctly (can’t even get the continent right in most cases :))</p>