<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>I'm a high school senior and I was just accepted to the school of engineering at Tufts under EDII! needless to say i'm very excited.
But, I have a question about course selection. I'm in AP calc (AB) right now, and the only way to get out of taking it again at Tufts would be a 5 on the AP exam. I'm not sure that's going to happen, but after poking around the Tufts website i noticed something. There's an honors course that combines Calc I and Calc II in one semester. My high school calc class runs all year on a block schedule, and my teacher says that we will get through about half of Calc II before the end of the year. So if i can't place out of Calc I with the AP Exam, would this honors course be a good idea? Since I'm already taking Calc I and some of Calc II now, would I be able to handle taking it again in one semester in college?</p>
<p>Do any of you have experience with the class?</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!</p>
<p>I did not take Honors Calculus I/II class (Math 17), even though I was eligible to do so (5 on the BC exam). It, as well as its followup class also taught by Professor Quinto (Math 18–Honors Calculus III), is a very intense class. It counts for 2.0 credits (Math 11-Calculus 1 counts for just 1.0 credit), and those credits are well warranted: you can easily spend twice as much work for it as your other classes, no matter if you have taken all of the calculus in the past or not.</p>
<p>Another option for you is to take the placement exam that is offered during orientation. That exam might let you place into Math 50 if it is offered again next fall. This fall, Math 50 was “Applied Calculus II”, and from what I heard from my engineering friend who took it, it was a solid course to take.</p>
<p>thanks for the help! it’s just the reason I think i would want to take it is because I really want to study abroad later on. I thought it’d be helpful to be a semester ahead when it comes time to take a semester off. But, if you Tufts students find it relatively easy to do study abroad without skipping a whole boatload of courses then I guess I could take calc one over again.</p>
<p>Or i could take that placement exam! that’d be helpful</p>
<p>Well, it is true that Engineers can find it difficult to take a semester abroad and still graduate on time if they don’t come in with sufficient AP credits. That being said, by no means is it impossible. What AP exams have you taken or are you planning to take, and which field of engineering are you interested in?</p>
<p>well, my school only offers about 5 AP’s, and I will have taken 4 of them by the time I graduate. The last one is ap bio, and I’m going for mechanical engineering so I saw that I might not have to take that at Tufts anyway.</p>
<p>But, I got a 4 on the ap lit exam, so that could get me out of English 1. If i get a four on the AP European History exam, then I could get out of a HASS requirement. I’m in physics B, but I won’t even need to take that again at Tufts because the first physics I’ll be taking is calc based. That means I won’t be able to get out of anything for that. Then there’s this whole calc scenario.</p>
<p>Soooo, I can get out of English 1, hopefully an HASS class, and possibly Calc 1. Like I said, Im going for mechanical engineering. So how are my chances of studying abroad looking? I’d still be able to do summer abroad no matter what right?</p>
<p>Here is the typical schedule that Mechnical Engineers take: [Mechanical</a> Engineering - Tufts University](<a href=“http://engineering.tufts.edu/me/academics/undergraduate/bsMechanical/degree.asp]Mechanical”>http://engineering.tufts.edu/me/academics/undergraduate/bsMechanical/degree.asp)</p>
<p>It might be hard to study abroad junior year, when most of the Arts & Sciences kids go, but it should definitely be possible depending on how you move things around. [This</a> page](<a href=“http://engineering.tufts.edu/me/academics/undergraduate/bsMechanical/otherInfo.asp]This”>http://engineering.tufts.edu/me/academics/undergraduate/bsMechanical/otherInfo.asp) details ways that students have found ways to study abroad in the past (England, France, Australia, and Hong Kong). You would definitely be able to study abroad in the summer with few issues, I think.</p>