Calculus

Applying to College
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<p>My school only let me take Honors Algebra Freshman year, because they wouldn't take credits from my old school (christian school). Sophomore year I took Honors Geometry, and Junior year I took Honors Algebra 2/Trig. I signed up for a summer course that will allow me to take Precalculus in summer school so I can take Honors Calculus my Senior year. Unfortunately I can't take AP Calculus. School just won't let me.</p>

<p>How will this look for college admissions. Will it make me seem lazy because I didn't take AP? I wanted to...but I couldn't.</p>

<p>Also, how much will this class help me for Freshman Calculus in college?</p>

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<p>one possible option:
you can still take the ap exam even if youre not enrolled in an ap course. just gotta sign up. and either tell your counselor to tell colleges that youre self studying or tell them yourself.</p>

<p>another option:
tell your counselor to tell colleges that your school didnt let you take ap calc because of extenuating circumstances. admissions will understand.</p>

<p>another option:
reason with the school, have them make an exception for you, so that you can take ap calc.</p>

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<p>Call your parents up and have them yell at the office. It worked for me. Got me into all honors courses :).</p>

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<p>Or what seems to be the most dramatic way: write an essay about it!</p>

<p>I was kidding by the way.</p>

<p>They can’t penalize you for somethingthat isn’t your fault.</p>

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<p>If you can take the honors class and do well in it i don’t think it will matter a ton. How similar are the classes? could you possibly take the AP exam without taking the AP Class? or you could simply have your counselor explain your situation to admissions. that would work too
I wouldnt worry about it if you are in other APs/Honors classes and do well in those too</p>

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<p>They don’t tell you this in high school, but AP courses suck. If you go to a good college, their version of the course will be much harder than AP standards. This is fine for getting general requirements out of the way, but for subjects in your major, this can make the next class in the sequence more difficult than it needs to be.</p>

<p>Oh whoops, I didn’t read the last part of your post. Yeah, taking AP calculus will help you in your first calculus class if you decide not to go to the next, but you’ll be in good shape without APs. If you remember your algebra and the properties of e, log, sin, cos, tan, then you’ll be fine.</p>

<p>Colleges really don’t care for AP credits that much . . . I think there is a warped view of how important they are by high school students (I had it too . . .)</p>