<p>Either study and take it on your own (only if you feel comfortable with that) or take Math 32 or 41 at Duke. There's nothing else you could do. Taking math 103 is only an option for those with BC calc credit or equivalent.</p>
<p>SBR, do you know of any courses (at a college, summer program, etc.) with which I could earn a Calculus BC credit? Basically, what do you recommend I do if I really want to take the course/equivalent prior to college?</p>
<p>As I mentioned, you could try studying BC on your own and taking the AP Exam in May. Pratt only requires a 4 or above on the AP for you to place into math 103. Compared with a college course, I'd say the AP's curve is generally a lot better. </p>
<p>Or if you really want to, take it at a university near you? I'm sure almost any post-secondary institution will offer an equivalent course. I'm not familiar with the exact procedures for transferring credit, but I would talk to Pratt and/or the math department so that they can approve the course first. I suppose for Pratt you should contact someone like Dean Connie Simmons who should be able to help you.</p>
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SBR, do you know of any courses (at a college, summer program, etc.) with which I could earn a Calculus BC credit? Basically, what do you recommend I do if I really want to take the course/equivalent prior to college?
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I see you're from MN - you could take it at the U or Normandale. This is assuming you're in the Twin Cities area, of course...Also, if you take the course but not the AP test, make sure it doesn't go on your hs transcript. Duke has some weird thing about not accepting courses taken at a local college if you used those courses for hs credit. So if you want to get transfer credit for BC calc without taking the AP test, take the course during the summer or something. Do NOT take it PSEO!!</p>
<p>Dude, if you self study Calculus BC, there's no way you're not going to get reamed in Math 103.</p>
<p>Just take Math 102. It's much simpler, IMO, and it doesn't have anything to do with econ.</p>
<p>Did anyone else find that you didn't really need to know that much stuff from BC for Math 103?
The only things I remembered doing were literally derivatives, integrals, and differential equations..
Nothing with Taylor Series for instance!</p>
<p>Yeah, although I had to use integration by parts and simple fractions in math 103 and taylor series in math 108.</p>
<p>sooo what if u dont get a 4 or 5 on the BC exam? just take math 32/41 and then ur done with math forever?? (if i wanna major in polisci)</p>
<p>I'm not sure that you even need to take math 32/41 specifically if you are polisci. Maybe someone in trinity can answer that.</p>
<p>Too lazy to look up the specific polisci requirements, but I really don't think math is one of them. So I believe you're done with math. You just need two Quantitative Study classes for t-reqs (there are easy comp sci, stats, etc. classes that will work for this)</p>
<p>THANK YOU guys! :)</p>