<p>I took Calc. 1 because I thought it would've been an easy A after getting a 5 on the AP AB exam, & would've provided much-needed GPA padding after the rape that was Gen. Chem. 1 w/ Lab; sadly, I was mistaken.</p>
<p>So your'e saying that u regret taking calc 1. b/c it was too hard? harder than calc 2?</p>
<p>Precisely; we had an unintelligible teacher, and the program coordinator who wrote the tests was sadistic. Calc. 2 was much easier & taught superbly.</p>
<p>Oh. well I'm taking BC calc right now, so it's not that it was a bad decision on your end, it was your prof.'s fault..</p>
<p>Just take higher calc. Sometimes, it opens you up to some classes that you're going to want to take, but can't with normal calc. </p>
<p>If you're smart enough to excel at calc BC, just take the next logical progression of calculus; it's not as hard, and has some potentially useful stuff in it (maximizing with constraints comes to mind).</p>
<p>crackednugget:</p>
<p>not everyone is going to med school... some people actually want to take more math (not sure about the other poster). i couldn't imagine not going past calc 1 and calc 2... </p>
<p>i did Calc BC, and Calc 3 plus 2 other advanced math classes at a university before i graduated from high school... and i'm not even going to be a math major. it just seems like good stuff to know. at least, any doctor i would go to better know it. why do the minimum when you can do better?</p>
<p>Gotcha. thanks.</p>