Title. I am a sophomore and am currently taking Honors Pre-Calc. Honestly I found the material to be really easy (not trying to flex or anything), and I really want to be ahead in math. As so, I took AP Calculus AB classes outside of school concurrently with my Honors Pre-Calc, and I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of all the material (currently going over integral calc). I plan on learning the additional topics in BC over the summer and taking a placement test to place out of BC calc, allowing me to move on to multivar junior year and diff. eq senior year. I am willing to put in a lot of effort in achieving my goal. Assuming that all this is possible (I am pretty sure that it will be since I have a lotta time during the summer), will not taking a formal year of single-variable calculus hurt my chances in admissions to top 20 unis for STEM? Or will it increase my chances? Thanks.
Having gone through these classes I can say with 100% certainty that the college’s do not care about the AP course. In my school doing an exam without the class is common. It is a duel edge sword. If you take the exam and fail it the college’s won’t look highly in it. If you get a 4 or 5 it looks very impressive. I recommend taking both the AB and BC exams. Take the AB in May and take BC next year.
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it doesn’t matter what math classes you take as long as you get good grades. you’re not going to get ahead or favored during college apps because you took mulivariable calc and diff equations. why not just take ap calc bc and then ap stats and get the easy a?
Let us say that you do get through diff eq in HS.
- Make sure you get college credit for it, or you will just have to take more credits in college.
- You will need to make sure that you are truly prepared for the math in college (for engineering? physics? math major?
- Why are you in a hurry?