<p>I'm having this dilemma. Over the summer I'm guaranteeing I'm taking one of these.</p>
<p>Now they'll both be online, but I'm not sure which one would be better to take.
The college Precalc is at Northern Virginia Community College, while the HS is Virtual Virginia. Which one should I do?</p>
<p>By the way the college one is called Precalculus with Trigonometry.</p>
<p>Probably can’t go wrong with either, though in my experience the average advanced high school class is more challenging than a community college class. Again, this is what I’ve only personally gleaned, so definitely seek other opinions.</p>
<p>If you want to use that class for your math graduation requirement, make sure to talk to your school and confirm that it’s OK. In my state there are minimum admissions requirements–one of them is a 4th year of math–and I know at least one girl who took a College Pre-cal class without the extra lab, and so didn’t meet the state minimum of class-time, and thus received a call from the colleges she applied to: She wasn’t eligible to apply because she didn’t meet the 4th math requirement.</p>
<p>I took Honors Pre-cal online, and we didn’t spend more than a few weeks on trig topics. This meant I had to take the placement test twice to even get into calc! I tutor math at my community college and am currently in Calc II, and I have found the community college math here to be far superior to any level (i.e. honors, accelerated, AP, et al.) high school math. Since you’re planning to continue into Calc and beyond, you might want to go ahead at take the Pre-cal Trig class so that you won’t have to worry about the placement test (Precalculus with Trigonometry is the pre-req for Calc I, right?), and you’ll be taught the material in the way that it’s required for calc I. Trig is very important in calculus and more emphasis is often placed on it at a college than for AP.</p>
<p>Thanks. I think that makes my decision. By the time I finish HS, I’ll be like 2 years ahead of math requirements</p>
<p>Finish it in High School so you’ll be ahead.</p>
<p>I’ll already be ahead. They would have to put me in Calculus regardless in my junior year. (I’m a sophomore right now).</p>