<p>To fulfill the science requirement, I'm thinking of taking a logic class. Can anyone tell me a little bit about those and what the classes are like?</p>
<p>I also found on the economics website that prospective economics majors can take Calc 1 (or have a 5 on the AP Calc AB exam) and take Calc 3 without having to take Calc 2. Would it be sheer insanity to do this? What if I have a tutor/take a Calc 2 course over the summer locally and proceed to take Calc 3? Anyone who is familiar with the Calc sequence, please let me know your opinion.</p>
<p>as for calc though....you dont need calc 2 to take calc 3....calc 1 is differentiation etc, calc 2 is integration etc, and calc 3 is partial differentiation (or at least thats the only part of the class the econ department actually cares about)...so calc 3 follows quite well from what they teach you in calc 1 so if you did well on the calc AP you should be able to skip calc 1 and go straight to calc 3 which is what is required without any difficulty.</p>
<p>I've done differentiation, integrationa dn partial differentiation. Do I get to skip all three courses? I have Abitur exam results, which cover all three areas.</p>
<p>peafire: I once read that no matter how far ahead in math you've gone, Columbia will try to stop you from starting in anything higher than Calc 3...but I think that's more of a hard rule for SEAS (since Calc is required) than for CC, so you might be able to get around it.</p>
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peafire: I once read that no matter how far ahead in math you've gone, Columbia will try to stop you from starting in anything higher than Calc 3...but I think that's more of a hard rule for SEAS (since Calc is required) than for CC, so you might be able to get around it.
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<p>I started in DiffEq and placed out of all calculus without argument (amazing from the CU bureaucracy, where you have to fight for everything else).</p>
<p>Thanks for the info Shraf! I'm really glad to hear that what I'm considering isn't insane. I think I'll brush up on some calc during the summer and maybe familiarize myself with some of the topics before coming in so I don't feel as intimidated.</p>
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if you're good enough to skip 3 or more semesters of calculus, you should probably be in Honors Math anyway.
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<p>If you know the calculus already and are an engineer rather than a theoretical math major, the only value of taking honors math would be the pure intellectual stimulation. So I'd say there are plenty of reasons why not to bother with Honors Math if you can pace out of calculus.</p>
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C02, Simply by showing them your AP exams results? OK, so I guess I'll just have to try and see, thanks guys.
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<p>No, I had taken several college courses in advanced math beyond the AP Calc.</p>