<p>Here's the deal: I was always pretty good at math, but had the worst teacher of my life for pre-calc my junior year and got a B and a C. I need to take calc freshman year at UT because I want to transfer into mccombs. Should I try to take calc at a community college this summer (will it transfer? if not, a good intro to the material, but would take a lot of time) or should I just take it at Texas?/Are there any other options? I hear its extremely difficult there though. I'm willing to work hard in order to stay at UT, but at this point I don't know how far that will get me at this point.</p>
<p>I HIGHLY recommend taking Calculus I & II at a community college such as Houston Community College or elsewhere. The Calculus taught at UT is, IMO, tough and the professors suck. The class usually ends up being a self-taught class.</p>
<p>Anyways, most CC credits will transfer to UT, if your not sure then go to the UT website and their is a transfer equivalncey system you can use to see what credits transfer and what don’t.</p>
<p>DO NOT TAKE IT AT TEXAS. They have a 59% fail rate. Even the advisers there told me NOT to take it there. Take it a community college.</p>
<p>Also, CHECK with the University if it transfers.</p>
<p>What you absolutely do not want to do is to take calc I at cc and calc II at Texas. Don’t take anything at community college that has a sequel. Calculus at community college will be no where as rigorous as at UT and you will not be successful in a second course at UT if you take the first course at cc.</p>
<p>Queen is right. If you take it at a CC, take BOTH in the same summer if your community college allows that. I’m doing that.</p>
<p>How do I check? I’m out of state, so its not in the automated transfer equivalency thing. Can I use their evaluation form for courses at another school, even though I am not yet a current student? (this thing: <a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/pre-eval.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/pre-eval.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>can you take it during the year?</p>
<p>The calculus situation at UT is bizarre. If you have a good background in calculus, it’s shockingly easy. If you don’t, it’s amazingly hard. Why? 90% of the instructors can’t teach. </p>
<p>Take it at community college. You can take it during the year at ACC if you so please. You actually don’t need calculus knowledge for the greater majority of McCombs classes, just the credit. It’s stupid. </p>
<p>However, I’m theorizing here, but I imagine if you made an A in calc at UT, it would boost your chances at McCombs.</p>
<p>I think I could take it at like Austin CC concurrently, but I’d rather get it done over the summer so I can focus on UT and have it out of the way. I just emailed the math coordinator at Oakton to see if I can take both sections over the summer.</p>
<p>My roommate and I are both taking cal 2 at ACC while enrolled in our UT classes this semester. I would really recommend it because my prof at ACC is extremely laid back and considers a 70 to be a C, which is all you really need. The calculus professors at ACC seem to understand that most of their students are trying to transfer into McCombs, so they set the C standard to be a 70 instead of a 75. Plus my professor gives 20-30 points worth of extra credit and gives you a 100 on homework if your homework notebook is organized enough. The only thing we really hate is having to leave the comfort of UT and get on the bus to travel to ACC, especially after a full day of classes at UT. It is especially tiring for me because my class was only offered at night, so by time I get out of my class, I have to walk 2 blocks to the bus stop and then ride the bus for 40 minutes until it drops me off in front of Dobie. That wastes alot of time and its just so annoying to have to go to ACC, but its obviously better than taking it at UT and failing.</p>
<p>I agree, take a Calc II at a CC. However, calc 1 and 3 are easy no matter where you take it. I am talking about the 3 semester sequence, not 408C and D. </p>
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<p>As for this… I do not agree that by taking calculus at a CC it will make you less prepared for future UT classes. I am an engineering student and have taken calc 1 & 2 at my CC. I know just as much as kids who went through the whole sequence at UT. Case and point, I took calc 3 at UT and I still made an A with minimal effort.</p>
<p>^Didn’t know engineering students could opt for KLM sequence. </p>
<p>Agree with you though. UT calculus isn’t rigorous by any means, it’s just poorly taught.</p>
<p>Something else to beware of with calculus at UT. You will be surrounded by students who could have tested out of the subject entirely or tested into higher levels. Yet, those students won’t do it, but instead take the lower levels to get an easy A. Some of the calculus courses are graded on a curve as well, so those “easy A” students affect your grade. </p>
<p>I would take it at CC if possible. ACC has some wonderful TEACHERS in the math department. The classes will be 30 students and under as well, instead of the 135 or so at UT.</p>
<p>For the people who have taken calculus II over the summer, is it tough in a short period of time? I have heard a few people say that it is a tough thing to learn so quickly. I have always good at math and am doing well in Calc I (have a 100+ in my Calc I class at UTSA). But is it tough being so accelerated?</p>
<p>It can be. If you stay ontop of the material you will be fine. All learn in Calculus 2 is different integration techniques and some sequences and series. Its not like they are teaching you a completely new thing like calculus 1.</p>
<p>Has anyone taken Calc II at HCC? If so, how are the teachers? Do you recommend taking it at ACC instead. I’m located in Sugar Land by the way (closest to the Stafford location)</p>
<p>^ I took Calculus I over the winter break at HCC Stafford (I’m also from Sugar Land). I don’t know what your situation is but the best idea is to take Calculus I at HCC Stafford during the summer and then Calculus II during the winter session with Professor Odion.</p>
<p>Hey toffa im also near OCC and im going to UIUC next year. Im finishing my senior year with pre calc so i wanted to take calc I over the summer at OCC. Is it a good idea? Whats the deal with taking calc at OCC? I was planning on retaking it at UIUC next year</p>
<p>ratemyprofessor.com is a good place to find reviews on community college professors… I suggest checking that out.</p>
<p>If you take calculus over the summer prior to entering UT, I would suggest that you make sure to complete ALL of it over the summer. I did the first part in the spring, nothing over the summer and then took the second part in the fall. The problem with that is that you have kids from high school who tested out of the first part (and pretty much know the second part) entering UT as fall freshmen. So they naturally take the second part in their first fall semester. It pretty much screwed the curve for me. I got an “A” in part one and a “C” in part two. I can’t blame it entirely on the curve though…the professor, Sadun, knew that all the kids coming into his class were a little brighter than the average freshman, so he made the course extra hard. I learned all the mechanics of how to solve the problems for that part of calculus with no problem, but the guy gave us very atypical word problems that looked nothing like our textbook word problems. His “real life problems” on the exams were ones in which we were supposed to deduce the mathematical application without many clues to trigger you and then solve the problems. After the first exam, we renamed him from professor Sadun, to Professor Satan. Apparently it wasn’t anything new to him, because he said he didn’t like when people called him that.</p>