<p>I am currently taking Calculus III and have a 75 average. I am an overall A student, and I have never averaged below a B, so this is a huge blow. I finished my calculus school requirement junior year with AP Calc AB so I could have taken AP Stat but my guidance counselor insisted girls in math was great. </p>
<p>BS. </p>
<p>I am doing terribly. I have gone to my teacher multiple times after school for help and he has helped and even said, "i have high expectations from you, no student has put in this much effort' and i proceeded to hand in a 72 that afternoon when i took the test.</p>
<p>I am applying to a lot of top tier schools early, and I do not want them to see a progress report with a disgusting 75. For my regular decision schools, that will be a nightmare. What do I do? I am taking three other APs for a total of 8 all of high school with 7 honors classes and I am freaking out and in bad shape because of this. It is extremely stressful and it's bad, so the anxiety is getting to me. :(</p>
<p>Multivariable calculus is a very challenging course for all but a very select few high school students. My best advice is to continue to work hard and turn the experience into a brilliant college application essay. Hopefully you have the option to take something easier next semester.</p>
<p>It is a two semester course so that’s it for me. You don’t advise me to drop it and switch in AP Stat. I mean, I took my science classes a year ahead of my grade and math is done with, so it’s not like I am the average senior at school. My school offers one class for this subject and I made it in, but I can’t maintain the average in the class. It’s going to be a blow to my overall average, something i built up for so long. It’s so hard. Actually.</p>
<p>How exactly should I be molding it into an essay? I have two apps due tomorrow, so definitely not my common app essay right?</p>
<p>Also, are you aware if early schools see your progress grades?</p>
<p>I’m not sure why they skipped you from AB to Multivariable…that makes you skip a whole level. I’m sorry it is so difficult for you. When my son has problems with his classes he watches the Khan Academy videos. This have been invaluable for Physics C. Good luck.</p>
<p>I barely found resources for Multi. However, I need more than just a tutorial. It needs to an in depth explanation and how many times can I watch over one video?
Thank you for your good wishes Anne and momyel. It’s just scary that I am doing this horribly in a math class. The only option is to work harder. Thank you for the support.</p>
<p>I don’t understand, you went from Calc AB to Multivariable??? You should be in Calc II, NOT Calc III! Or did you take Calc II over the summer?
Are you going to the tutoring center? Office hours?</p>
<p>For such a class, you need to spend about 10hours a week studying and many students need a study group to work on the problem sets.</p>
<p>But if you never took Calc II, it’s no wonder you can’t make it, in fact it’s amazing you’re even having a C.</p>
<p>See if you can take Calc II - it’s late in the semester but considering the fact you’re a HS student, they may let you switch?</p>
<p>I’m guessing that they taught it to her in part of her curriculum last year in her Calc class. There is NO WAY any school would probably allow a student to skip a level of math ESPECIALLY in this exact situation. </p>
<p>My suggestion would be to make friends in your class if you don’t have some and ask them to help tutor you (obviously ask the smartest kids in your class though). Another thing that would help would be just reading the whole textbook from current chapter onward and doing the exercises repeatedly, its a tedious process that works well though…</p>