<p>It's my first semester at Rutgers and I'm taking 5 courses (14.5 credits). I was taking another 3 credit course but withdrew it (with a Withdrawl on my record). I had gotten credit for Calc 1 and 2 by the AP exam.</p>
<p>I am almost certain I just bombed my calc final after not doing excellent on the two midterms as well and those exams total to 80% of my grade. I believe I'm going to be getting a C in one course (a writing course) and Bs or As in my other courses (Chem, Physics, a 1.5 credit german course). How much trouble am I in for the future if I fail Calc 3 as an engineer? I'm stuck in a school at Rutgers that doesn't offer engineering majors (SAS) but can transfer to their engineering school if, after meeting my requirement of chem 2, I carry a 2.5 GPA and have no Ds or Fs in the previous semester. Is my GPA going to be horrible forever?</p>
<p>I know at most schools simply retaking the class will replace the grade and your GPA will reflect the higher grade. As far as failing calc 3, just retake it if you do. It’s not uncommon that people fail calc classes, they aren’t exactly easy for a lot of people, they just get back up and take another shot.</p>
<p>As far as how important concepts from calc 3 are for engineering, I think it would depend on which discipline you go into. I just got done taking Statics and there was some stuff from calc 3 in there. As far as the future goes, I’ve heard theres actually not too much calc used in most fields, but I can’t say from personal experience since I’m still a student myself (I’ll be transferring to Rutgers next year myself).</p>
<p>As it was expressed above, generally you can retake a class if u get below a C and get it grade replaced, though you can usually only do this for a few classes and they put the good and bad replaced grade on your transcript still. Nonetheless, you should be fine and able to retake calc 3. </p>
<p>In terms of engineering, you need calc 3. In my major, many of my courses deal with at least partial derivatives, volume, surface and line integrals, stokes and divergence theorem etc. I have heard on the job you don’t do much calc but you need it for future courses most likely.</p>