I’m just looking for some advice. I completed calc 1 at my local community college last semester with a B, which is lower than I would have liked but still fine. However this semester I got a teacher who’s teaching style is not so great for me. It is also a lot harder for me since it is online. I’m just not sure that I will do great in the class and really don’t want to risk getting a C or D. The thing is, I’m going into engineering. If I did drop calc 2, I would switch it for a microeconomics class, also at the college (so it’s still a college level class, but not really STEM-related.) Obviously I know I will have to take calc 2 and beyond in college, but mainly I think it’s hard because of my professor, and due to the fact that it’s fully online. I know I will have to let colleges know if I do switch this class, but will this be cause to rescind my acceptance?
Would also like to add that all of my other classes this year are AP.
Your Calc 2 is hard because Calc 2 is hard, everywhere. In the traditional 3 class sequence, it would be difficult to find anyone that didn’t think that 2 was the hardest.
I know I will have to let colleges know if I do switch this class, but will this be cause to rescind my acceptance?
Have you already been accepted via EA or ED? This sentence makes it sound like you have.
I have been accepted via EA.
You should ask the college that admitted you if dropping the previously-reported planned or in-progress course:
- is ok with them, or
- will cause them to re-evaluate your admission, or
- will cause them to rescind your admission
before actually dropping it.
You do not want to surprise them in the summer after you matriculate.
For all other colleges where you have not received admission decisions, any schedule change needs to be reported so that they can consider it for admission purposes and will not be surprised in the summer if you matriculate there.