<p>I want to take some math @ the local community college, but my school (private) says that I wont get a high school credit for it. If I resolve this issue by taking a second science class and am able to graduate (funny that by taking calc ii and iii my graduation will come into question), will colleges (upper tier- cornell, brown, wustl etc) not like seeing that I will have 3 colleges credits (calc1-3) but one less high school math credit (but 1 extra science credit)?</p>
<p>Taking true college courses (calculus 1 through 3) while still in high school should be fine as far as the university admissions evaluations go.</p>
<p>they wont care that I have one less math high school course and one more science course?</p>
<p>You took college math after presumably exhausting the high school math offerings, so how could that possibly be bad from a college admissions point of view?</p>
<p>My question would be that if your current high school does not accept it, then it will not be considered a dual credit class. It would be a real college class, which means that the college you will be applying to might consider you a transfer and not a freshman. I would definitely check into that!!! There are big differences in the amount of scholarship money for freshmen and transfers.</p>
<p>I’ll definitley check into that.
@ucbalumnus, i was asking if they would care about my high school credits, but if I have good stats then it wouldn’t really matter. </p>
<p>I have another issue: If I took calc i during the summer I would need to take calc ii online in the fall because none of the colleges in my area offer calc ii during the fall. Is it worth it? Should I just take it easy this summer and not take calc? I’m willing to work but I dont want a bad calc foundation.</p>
<p>For math, college admissions are unlikely to care about the number of high school courses as much as which courses you have completed. You are completing precalculus, and will complete a year of college calculus, so that is more than enough.</p>
<p>If you can just take true college calculus courses* in fall and spring, that is plenty good. Taking calculus before graduating from high school is already advanced.</p>
<p>*At a community college, check that the courses will transfer to the state flagship university for math and engineering majors in order to get the most rigorous versions (in many colleges, there is a less rigorous “calculus for business majors” offered as well).</p>
<p>choirfarm - Is that true if you take a real college course with credit while in high school, then you will be considered a “transfer” student while applying to colleges as a freshman (after you graduate High School)? </p>
<p>For example, a friend of ours is a sophomore in high school and she was thinking of taking a college course - Introduction to Physics over the summer and get full credit for the course. She will then take a test at her high school to place out of Intro to Physics and then she will take AP Physics her Junior year. </p>
<p>I’ve heard that if a high school student takes just one college course then they automatically become a transfer student when they apply to any other college. If this is true, then that is not good because transfer students are usually not offered merit scholarships like incoming freshman are.</p>
<p>I looked on Cornell’s website, and that is not the case. Students will still be considered first year applicants. After all, we’re still enrolled in high school and have a transcript. I think you’ll just have to check with each college you are applying to (that’s what I’m doing before I sign up for any courses). </p>
<p>Although I still am pondering whether I should even take calc in general, if I study calc i (improbable) before the school year ends and take calc ii during, would I still have to take calc i in college?</p>
<p>Colleges will not consider you a transfer. Colleges do not include any college courses taken while in high school as counting toward determining whether you are a freshman applicant or transfer applicant even though they will accept such courses for college credit. That your school does not accept college credits also makes no difference. In fact, if you actually used those courses to meet a high school requirement for graduation, some colleges would then not accept them for college credit. No college expects anyone to complete higher than calculus while in high school and you will meet any math requirement of any college by having those CC math courses (assuming you get decent grades) and none of those high ranks will think anything different.</p>
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<p>If the college course is accepted for transfer credit, then you won’t have to repeat it in most cases. The exceptions are if you took a “calculus for business majors” course but decide to major in something needing a more rigorous version of the course, or if you attend a super-elite STEM-focused school (like Caltech or Harvey Mudd) whose freshman calculus courses are much more theoretical and in-depth than those at most schools. Also, if you barely scrape by with a C- the first time, you may want to retake it if it is key prerequisite to your major courses.</p>
<p>We are currently deciding whether or not my son should take Calc next year at the cc or do PA Homeschoolers AP Calc class. The head of the department at our cc said that he would need to start the Calculus at the school he would be attending. She said from personal experience that it is a BAD idea to take Calc I and/or II and then enter Calc II or III at the “real” school. So no matter what, he will retake it at college.</p>
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<p>Huh? Lots of students take freshman calculus at community college and then transfer to state flagship universities in engineering, physics, math, etc. majors and do fine without having to retake freshman calculus.</p>