<p>My school doesn't offer Calculus BC, so I am in AB this year... is it important to have a BC score to be competitive (ie should I self study and go for it although I am underprepared), or will taking the AB not be counted against me since it is the most advanced course available?</p>
<p>BUMP</p>
<p>please....?</p>
<p>Your application is looked at in context, so MIT will see that no BC course was offered.</p>
<p>If you've already studied AB, self-studying BC is pretty easy, you just have to make sure you are really committed to it. Though at this point (the weekend before AP's) I'm not sure what you can do.</p>
<p>No it isn't expected. Especially if your school didn't even offer it.</p>
<p>18.01 should cover that material.</p>
<p>That's good to know...my school doesn't offer BC either. Until this year I had no idea that it was divided AB and BC.</p>
<p>Nope. But, as someone said, self-study is easy. BC isn't much more than AB. I reccomend it if you can.</p>
<p>openmic,
you took A/B your senior year and got accepted to MIT?
guess admissions is subjective?</p>
<p>leftylafty,</p>
<p>Admissions is based (in part) on making sure that a student takes advantage of the educational opportunities open to them. There are still quite a few schools that do not offer AP courses at all. Should all students from these schools automatically be rejected for the hideous crime of having the wrong zipcode? If the school offers 30 AP courses and a student chooses to take none, then that is something that needs explanation. If the school only offers AB Calc senior year, then that is fine, and says nothing about whether the student is deserving of admissions.</p>
<p>I found your comment tasteless.</p>
<p>I agree. What does that have to do with anything?</p>
<p>Most HS have arrangements with community colleges and local universities to advance your education.
sorry, but that is my view on the matter.</p>
<p>Actually most high schools don't leftylafty. Really.</p>
<p>Also, if you are living in a rural area, you may be far away from a college of any sort.</p>
<p>If you want it bad enough, you can make it happen.
woke up at 630am on MWF, to catch a bus, then a train, then a trolley to get to my Calculus and Physics classes at GT. 90 minutes in transportation each way. Back at HS by noon to finish my classes.</p>
<p>My friend only took calc AB by end of high school- he's from west virginia. Taking college classes in high school is overrated. You'll have plenty of time to take college classes in college :P</p>
<p>Also, I want really really bad to be a chicken.
Will that help me get into MIT???</p>
<p>^^ sorry I meant to add that my friend is a junior *math major*at MIT :PPP that story is pointless w/o that part.</p>
<p>l0l pebbles :p/***********/</p>
<p>leftylafty: I'm a junior. I haven't been accepted anywhere.</p>
<p>I was asking about how Calc AB vs BC would be viewed in admissions-- whether most applicants have taken BC, and whether not being able to show a score for BC would hurt me.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that it doesn't apply to me, however, I have to agree with other posters that your comment was tasteless. If someone is accepted to MIT they are clearly intelligent enough to succeed in the coursework there. They can't help the highschool they went to or the course offerings.</p>
<p>...And I guess I answered my own question with that :) But believing in that philosophy doesn't stop me from being nervous.</p>
<p>Openmic, don't be nervous. Really. Really. Don't sweat it.</p>
<p>"My high school does not offer it" answers the question fully.</p>