<p>I am applying to prep schools for my tenth grade year.
My school does not offer higher math courses, or an advanced track. I am prepared to take a Geometry course right now, if it were only offered to 9th graders. I am a year or more behind freshman students at boarding school right now.
I normally wouldn't mind taking a freshman class, if it were the only one. But as my school follows the biology-chemistry-physics order, and the schools I am applying to follow the physics-chemistry-biology order, I will ALSO be taking physics with freshman, if I am accepted.
I am thinking about this now because I need to know I can fulfill every academic, as well as social, opportunity, and not be held back in a lower math class because of my previous school.
I am considering taking a summer session course at either the school I am accepted to, or at a local college (Cornell, Ithaca College, Binghamton U, Cortland, or other) for Geometry or Precalculus (? Most of these schools only offer precalc as their lowest-level math course).
Should I do this? Or, IF I get accepted, should I suck it up and take the lower level math course?</p>