<p>Like as soon as you get into first-year university? I am assuming you have taken multivariable or linear algebra at the least.</p>
<p>Or any high level college course you have taken when you were in high school</p>
<p>I’m going to go with no…</p>
<p>i feel like the chance will only barely exist even if the high level course you took in high school happens to be at the college you ended up attending and the professor is the same</p>
<p>Seems like it would be difficult for a freshman to compete with upperclassmen for a TA position in any case. One would have to be quite exceptional.</p>
<p>I didn’t think undergraduates were ever TAs. :0 I was under the impression they were all grad students, given the pay.</p>
<p>I think undergraduate TAs are usually low-paid or get course credit of some kind.</p>
<p>At my college we have both grad and undergrad TAs… Undergrad TAs get credit for their work and in some cases do not even grade the assignments. Only certain departments offer the opportunity (generally less competitive ones… without a whole bunch of grad students competing for the same job) and its mostly the math/science departments. The only humanities one I can think of at my school is philosophy and then its only one class.</p>
<p>The requirement is that you must have taken the class in the college, gotten an A in it, and then you must apply for the job and be selected by the professor. No freshman can get these positions.</p>
<p>I read on nsf.gov about a girl who went from high school straight to columbia for research (like grad school I think). It’s possible, but it probably doesn’t exist because there are better things to do than to deal with annoying freshmen in introductory courses.</p>
<p>I agree with caemin. I was looking through work study jobs a while ago and for the TA positions, the requirements were that you had to have gone through the class and received an A in it.</p>
<p>I was a student mentor for one of my professors the quarter I after I had him. Though it wasn’t TA job technically it wasn’t too far off.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>All the TAs I’ve had were international grad students. all of them</p>
<p>Usually only in language courses, where the student was a native speaker of the language. That’s pretty common.</p>
<p>I know first-year student who tutored or graded Calc 1-2, but none of them got to hold problem sessions. The youngest TAs I know were in their junior year.</p>
<p>Also, at my college TA and grader assignments are usually done in the preceding semester. That means that first-year students might be able to get a job in their second semester but not right when they enter college.</p>
<p>I know a freshman at my school who took a business class first semester freshman year and then TAed the same course the next semester</p>
<p>In my school, you have to take a seminar the semester before you start TA-ing to be allowed to do it.
So no.</p>
<p>My D2 started TAing Calc2 second semester of her freshman year. She graded homework and exams, and ran recitations and exam review sessions. (Just like the upperclassmen and grad students did.)</p>
<p>She took Cal 3 and Linear Analysis during her senior year in HS.</p>
<p>It is possible that you can be a TA right in the first semester. I got an offer (paid offer, a little above minimum wage) to TA in first-year math courses, but I didn’t choose to go to that university.</p>