How can I take integral calculus?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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I need integral calculus to apply for HPME, but only AP Calc AB is offered at my high school. Where else can I take it?

Thanks

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Local community college?

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I looked, but I have not seen any offered.

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Are you sure? It’ll likely be the next class after whatever they call Calc 1. Three community colleges near me call it Calculus 2, Analytical Geometry and Calculus II, and Calculus and Analytic Geometry II, respectively.

Edit: those numbers should all be 2’s, sorry.

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https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-calculus-ab-and-bc-course-and-exam-description.pdf indicates that calculus AB includes integration, though a few integration topics are only included in BC.

You can ask Northwestern directly if calculus AB fulfills the requirement.

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Calculus AB does include some integration - it introduces you to the topic - but it’s not integral calculus. Calculus AB is differential calculus. Integral calculus is usually whatever Calculus II is at most colleges and universities. I think it’d be unlikely that Calculus AB would fill that requirement for Northwestern.

If your local community college doesn’t offer Calculus II (which would be unusual), then try looking at an online college/university. Indiana University East appears to offer a lot of math online, and at IUE you can get a whole BS in mathematics online, so presumably they offer some online calc II classes:

http://www.iue.edu/online/programs/bs-math.php

There are also places like the UC Berkeley Extension:

http://extension.berkeley.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=22828946

and Brigham Young’s online courses:

https://is.byu.edu/description/MATH-113-200

I’m sure there are lots of others.

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Are you aware that the average math SAT is 790 and English is 750? I noticed on another one of your threads that your PSAT was 1370. While I understand that you’re interested in finding an integral calculus class, you need to consider that you’ll also need very high SAT scores to be considered. It’s admirable that you’re trying to take the classes needed to be considered, but you also need to be realistic.

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There is no set SAT requirement for the program. And that PSAT score was as a sophomore with no preparation. I don’t think it was bad at all considering I just walked in that morning and took the test with no preparation.