Engineering Major Possible?

<p>I think you should talk to your current math teacher and all the other involved math teachers about this. You may be able to self-study algebra2/trig over the summer (or take a summer school class) and take precalc in the fall. Skipping directly from geometry? to calculus without either algebra2 or precalc seems like a recipe for disaster to me.</p>

<p>Just to be clear, I think you should be ready to take calculus in college. You don’t need to already have taken it, although it would be preferable, most programs don’t require it and will happily start you off in calculus.</p>

<p>@mathyone I’m not skipping from geometry I took it last year. I’m in alg 2 right now and it’s not possible for me to take a class in summer so what is the self study ? Do i just buy a book and study it ?</p>

<p>Your post said you were going to take “alg2/trig” as a senior, so I assumed you had not yet taken alg2. In that case, I suggest you talk to the teachers about learning trig over the summer on your own (see if you can borrow the text) (or there might be summer school or online classes) and then enroll in precalc. If you’ve already had alg2, trig usually isn’t a big deal. You can probably learn what you really need with something like one quarter of what you’ve done in alg2.</p>

<p>Most engineering freshman course requirements that I’ve seen include calculus and also calculus-based physics. If you haven’t had precalculus yet, I think you would have a problem. That’s why I think it’s important for you to finish precalculus. Another thing to ask your counselor about is whether it’s possible to take both alg2/trig and precalculus next year. That may or may not work out depending how things are taught.</p>

<p>ok thanks i’ll talk to my counsler</p>

<p>@mathyone I just talked to my counsler, and I am unable to take precalc before i graduate will it be a problem ?</p>

<p>Check admission expectations for the schools which interest you. </p>