<p>Here's the short story:</p>
<p>I just finished Junior year, and took AP Calculus BC (5 woo woo!). I was originally planning on taking Calculus III in the fall, and Calculus IV in the spring. However, due to scheduling conflicts, I can't take any community college classes during the fall.</p>
<p>If I didn't take math at all next year, would it look bad? Or should I try to get Calc III in for the Spring? My schedule has been very screwy, and my terrible counselor hasn't been helping.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I think you'll be just fine, since you've gone so far in math. But if you wanted to be safe, you might add a little note in the app explaining why you couldn't take any more math.</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat, lildude. The difference is that I'm not doing math because I hate it as opposed to a scheduling conflict. I dont think it matters, especially if you dont major in math or engineering.</p>
<p>not taking math in your senior year wouldn't be that bad. i didn't, and i got into college just fine.</p>
<p>Have you already taken 4 courses of math in high school? Like if you doubled up on AP Stats + another math I think it wouldn't be a problem at all.</p>
<p>If you want to do some self study math, you might try out
<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm</a></p>
<p>Free MIT classes. Some are better than others. Or if you have a pretty good idea where you are going, you might want to get one of thier texts for the first math class you are going to take, and work through it.</p>
<p>A kid in my school was in a similar position as you...ended up in Princeton. Don't worry.</p>
<p>I've dreamt of a no-math senior year since algebra, but then I realized Yale will want me to be as well-rounded in my schedule as possible, so just taking the min. number of credits for math won't cut it. So hello, AP Calc 2 yrs from now.</p>
<p>last year, my sophomore year, i did an independent study bc class during my ab calc class, and got a 5 on the bc exam. this upcoming year, due to scheduling conflicts between local colleges and daily schedule and extracurricular activities, i will be doing another independent study of finishing calc III (i started it, but did not finish) and finishing the year with linear algebra or diff equ. i have found the independent study route to be far more rewarding in terms of actual content learned. it is especially nice if a math teacher at your high school is willing to help you if you get stuck, but from my experience, the text does a very good job of explaining the more difficult sections. also if you are worried about time, you could just take 1 class all year and spend only a few min/day on it or even skip a few weeks around busy times, in my case ski season :) .</p>
<p>by calc iv, do you mean diff equ, as i have never heard of a calc iv?</p>
<p>just a though</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>The reason I wouldn't be able to take community college classes is because the section during the school day is at the same time as Physics C, and the night classes conflict with marching band practices during the fall. I'm just not going to worry about it during the fall, and when everything cools down in the spring, enroll in Calc III. Maybe. Now that I know I don't have to, I might just not bother. I just like math :)</p>
<p>numberz- My teacher explained why we have a Calc III and IV, whereas most places only go up to III- The entire calculus series is a 12-hour series. Most schools divide it into 3 4-hour classes. But for some weird reason, OU and most other schools in OK divide it into 4 3-hour classes. So Calc III here is basically a review of the end of BC Calc- Sequences, Series, Polars, and Parametrics. So even though I was tested over the first 8 hours of college calc, they only give credit for calc I and II, which is 6 hours. Then Calc IV is multivariable.</p>