<p>I'm thinking of taking Calculus as a class in either Cornell or Harvard in the summer. Will I have enough knowledge to take the AP test next year after taking Calculus I in the summer?</p>
<p>I assume your talking about Calculus AB, and the answer would probably be ‘yes’. However, you should, closer to the AP exam date, work through the stuff again because it is very easy to forget stuff you learn at these summer programs (because they are so concentrated). Within a few weeks of coming back from HSS, I had pretty much forgotten everything I learned from it (but at least cramming the material again was easy).</p>
<p>thanks. does anyone else have any experience or knowledge about this?</p>
<p>I pretty much agree with what he said. You should be able to do it fine; you’re just going to have to do some review, because after 9 months without practicing something you tend to forget it.</p>
<p>I’m currently a senior taking Calculus BC AP and I took the equivalent of AB with a few topics from BC this summer at Boston College. You don’t have to take the class at Harvard or Cornell to get a good education out of it so pick a college close to you and you should be fine. Make sure that you’re signing up for a course that doesn’t assume any prior knowledge of Calculus. Some classes will be a cursory review of AB which won’t really help you. Be prepared for a hyper accelerated program, my class at BC was a total of 2 semesters worth of Calculus in 6 weeks 4 days a week, 3 hours a day with homework. As to the exam, you’ll probably be better off taking the class and enrolling in BC the following school year because the BC exam has an AB subscore which counts towards credit. If you are a serious enough student to want to do this, sitting through another year of AB will be excruciating after the hyper fast paced college curriculum. If you live in the Boston area, I would suggest Boston College, they have a great summer program.</p>