<p>Most college students don’t take calculus, but for her major the OP’s daughter needs to take Calculus, or she needs to take both Statistics and Discrete Probability. So she needs to suck it up and take the preparatory course.</p>
<p>And if she can’t come up with a pretty good estimate of the square root of 95 without a calculator in her hands, that’s good evidence that the placement test was perfectly correct.</p>