<p>I want to take Precalculus and then Calculus at a community college (instead of Honors Precalculus and AP Calc BC at my high school). Will this hurt me at selective colleges? The only reason I have to do this is my school is being uptight and unreasonable, it won't let me take Precalculus over the summer and skip to Calc. I can't get the credits transferred over onto my high school transcript, either, so I guess I will have to notify colleges about these courses somehow. Any comments?</p>
<p>Lol, what exactly is your dream school? 
What do you plan on majoring in?</p>
<p>Middlebury, but I’m looking at a lot of other selective colleges as well such as U of Chicago, Georgetown, and Yale. And I’m planning on majoring in Economics, which I know means I need to have a strong background in math and have at least taken Calculus. This community college route is the only way I can take Calculus, but will college admissions folks view it as bad because my school decided to be stupid and not let me take AP Calc BC at my high school?</p>
<p>…anyone? I have to decide in 2 days whether I’m doing this or not, so it would be helpful to get some responses.</p>
<p>When you apply, you’ll be asked (in fact, required) to report GPA’s and send in transcripts from all educational institutions you attended. So you will definitely be reporting those classes to colleges. It won’t hurt you. In fact, it might even help you.</p>
<p>My daughter’s high school used to offer pre-calc and calculus through the local community college. Students who paid for the courses got “college credit.” Unfortunately for some of those who decided to go to non-SUNY colleges, they found the credits were non-transferrable and did not exempt them from taking Calc I at their college. </p>
<p>The high school started offering AP Calc AB and BC this year for honors level math students. Students my younger daughter knows in thi year’s senior class say there has been an unusual amount of complaining about how difficult calculus is and how much harder it is than the “old calc.”</p>
<p>Thanks both of you. I have no problem if I don’t get any credit, I want to take Calculus again in college anyway. I just want colleges to see that I took Calculus before I graduated. If my high school would have allowed me to take AP Calc BC, I would have taken that at my high school but they’re not letting me. I want to continue with my math track at my community college instead because of this. Also, I am taking AP Stats at school simultaneously with Calculus at the community college next year.</p>