<p>Not being a stereo-typical Asian, I suck at math. Plain and simple. I suppose it's lack of knowing how to actually study math, more than anything. I manage to understand until the test, then quickly move on to the next subject and forget what I learned previously. </p>
<p>Business Calculus and Statistics (which isn't as worrisome of a thought to me as Calc) are prereqs. to get into the Business College for Marketing. For any of you that have already had Bus. Calc., how difficult was it? I have been told that it is difficult, and that a majority of those (from the University I will be attending) only passed due to a curve. </p>
<p>In the event I fail horribly at one or both, PR will be my fall back. PR isn't included in the business college, but in the Arts and Sciences college, which doesn't include those two courses for prereqs, only general ed. requirements.</p>
<p>Business Calculus is not hard. The only reason it's hard because the students who take it are business students who are like yourself, as you claim "suck at math. Plain and simple."</p>
<p>Business calculus will usually include basic differentiation/intergration, finance maths (discounting, present values, annuities), simple matrix operation. If statistics are included, they'll throw you some methods of estimating parameters (say mean, standard deviation), using the normal distribution, and simple linear regression models, etc. Unlike traditional maths you would encounter in university, the course will have essential no proofs and are usually 100% applications.</p>
<p>That eases my stress a lot. I'm taking a Real Estate math course for my RE broker license, and I love it. Not just calculating commissions, we've done a lot of finance, and things of that nature. Also in AP Psychology, we did a chapter on Statistics and I enjoyed that (although it was just an introduction to it). I'm more real-life math oriented than all of the algebra/geometry type math where I can't apply it to a situation I'd actually be put in.</p>
<p>asianxsensation: if anything, I would certainly say that business calculus was much easier than college algebra. The steps are shortened and the concepts are more applicable. Studying minimal cost curves, annuities, simple/compound interest formulas etc etc. I, myself, am an economics major so I have to take calc1/2 and stats but after taking business calc, i'm sure anyone can pass it as long as he/she passes college algebra with a c or better.</p>
<p>Unlike most math courses, this particular course had a low dropout rate, probably 5-10%. My other math courses(ie algebra2/college algeb/trig) would start with 40 students and drop down to 10 by the end of the semester.</p>
<p>I did fairly well in algebra, the actual math isn't the problem. It's just more so of me not really caring to remember what I had learned in the previous chapter, with the mentality of, "oh, I won't have to apply this to anything from now on." </p>
<p>Real life math (finance and what not) I'm great at and love. </p>
<p>I suppose I'll have to wait and see how things turn out, although even if I do start lagging behind, there's always tutoring in the student center.</p>
<p>Thank you for the input.</p>