BC Calculus headache--should I drop or stay?

<p>BC calculus is too big a leap from your pre calc. My son has done AB and now is doing BC…very easy transition but even with AB he says the class moves a lot faster and you don’t have time to absorb the new stuff well without a lot of extra work. You do need calculus and just because you are struggling now does NOT mean that you are not going to be successful at engineering. However, a bad grade will hurt getting into colleges and damage your love of math–the worst outcome. I absolutely love math and use advanced math in my work, but it is the love of math that makes for success in it, not brute force effort in misery. SO…do the following. Ideally, you should drop the psych or any elective (including stats) and get into AB. Your advisor should tell you this. Dropping English is not really an option since most schools require 4 years of english. Or, drop the course and commit to taking AB calc or equivalent at a junior college. You can’t help it if your schedule won’t let you change to AB and schools can understand scheduling difficulties so you can make sure your advisor puts that you are taking Calc on line or at a junior college because of scheduling difficulties. Whatever you do, don’t assume getting Schuam’s guide will save you. TERRIBLE book series that does zero for understanding…truly a brute force method to memorize solutions without knowledge. It won’t work for BC calculus–trust me. Calculus is not the times tables – it is a very different animal and, as an engineer, you will use it daily and you need to develop an intuitive understanding of what you are doing with it.</p>