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Not sure if someone will be able to answer this, but the admissions person at one of the places I’m applying to is out of office for a month-ish.

I am applying to Iowa State, and I have to fill out my “core courses” and the length of each course. For math, Pre-calc, stats, calc, geometry and algebra 1 I understand, but Freshman year I took a course called “Advanced Algebra with Trig Honors” which is Algebra 2 with trig. Should I mark it as 2 semesters of each since we did Algebra 2 primarily with trig topics thrown into each unit and an extra unit, should I do one semester of each or 2 of Algebra 2 and 1 of Trig. It was definitely Algebra centered, but Iowa State requires that you have 1 year of Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2.

Thanks for the help!

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The application specifies “Three years required, including one year each of algebra I, geometry, and algebra II.”, so I’d suggest putting 1 year for Algebra II.

Many schools combine Trig with either Algebra 2 or pre-calc. The way they have it structured, it’s hard to indicate this. Unless you took a specific 1/2 year class called Trig, I’d chalk that full year up under Algebra 2 or Pre-calc, since Trig isn’t “required”.

Is this due in less than a month, and/or is there only one person in the entire admissions office at Iowa State?

(fwiw - what a weird application. My D didn’t have the “required” 1 year of Algebra or Geometry in the 8th-grade and later options they provide, and I suspect many others don’t either)