<p>Information about transfer credit is here[/url</a>]. If you were to self-study, you could take an [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/2009/rightnow/asexams.html%5Dadvanced">http://web.mit.edu/firstyear/2009/rightnow/asexams.html]advanced</a> standing exam, and if you passed, you would get credit for calc; if you didn't pass, you could take 18.01A (which I described above).</p>
<p>I guess I would advise at least serious self-study of calculus (and perhaps physics too) -- people who come here without ever having seen calculus or physics are often pretty freaked out in the first few weeks. (I was one of those who came here with no physics. Trust me, you don't want to be one of the few in the lecture hall who's never heard the concepts before -- it does not do nice things to your test grades.)</p>