<p>I know this thread may be a bit out of place, but I wanted to put it in a forum where I would get a lot of replies. For all you guys that have taken multivariable calc already, do you have any tips. I got a 75% on my first exam and my grade is down to an 80%. I am a junior and have taken BC and am now taking calc 3 at a nearby community college. Will passing the class be impressive enough to competitive colleges, or will I have to get an A/B in the course? I am not Dual Enrolling so the grade will not show up on my transcript. It will just be an extra thing on my application. I am not interested in engineering and would like to go into the medical field. Please help!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>IMO, any college that would be impressed by your merely passing Calculus 3 would be sufficiently impressed by your having taken BC as a junior; for those schools, just passing Calc 3 adds no value. </p>
<p>For any college where taking Calc 3 in high school adds significant value, I think you need a B or better.</p>
<p>Actually I took BC as a sophomore and got a 5 on the exam. The only reason I am taking calc 3 is because I want four years of math to show to colleges. The only other math class I have left to take at my high school is stats and I will take that senior year. Thanks for the help. Does anyone else have any tips for getting a B or higher in the class. My grade will be base solely on tests and 100 hw points.</p>
<p>What are you thinking of studying in college? Something that’s going to require this much math?</p>
<p>Nope… I think I have reached my limits with math. I want to go into the medical field.</p>
<p>Have you taken multivariable calc?</p>
<p>Anyone else with tips for a B grade in multivariable?</p>
<p>Does the college offer tutoring? If not, are there students in your class who are doing well that you could study with?</p>
<p>Also, most colleges request transcripts from all schools you’ve attended (including colleges). My daughter submitted her college transcript along with her high school transcript when she applied for college.</p>
<p>Yes there are study sessions before and after class most days. I’ve gone for a few… they don’t seem to help much. There is a guy from my school taking the class and he aced the first test, by I don’t know him that well. I just don’t know how to do well in the class. It is soooo hard.</p>
<p>I don’t see why you need this class at all. If you want to be a doctor, you don’t need to know anything more than single variable calculus. Is it too late to withdraw?</p>
<p>My parents told me not to take this course but I didn’t listen to them as I felt I would do well as I liked bc. It isn’t too late to withdraw but I won’t get my money back and won’t have any math in my junior year of high school. I feel like I am wasting too much time on this class when I could be doing more useful things. It does end December 16th. Maybe I can hold out for another 2 months. I am in a real dilemma.</p>
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That sounds to me like a good reason to withdraw. I mean, I know I’m encouraging you to quit, and nobody likes to be a quitter and all…but I’m seriously, literally encouraging you to just drop this class and run away.</p>
<p>I’m sure you won’t get your money back, but on the other hand, if you’ve never before made a more expensive error than this, just wait–you will.
That’ll be enough, as long as you don’t plan to be an engineer, an astrophysicist, or something like that. I’m quite sure.
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Have you taken multivariable calc?<a href=“I%20don’t%20know%20whether%20this%20was%20addressed%20to%20me.”>/quote</a> I have. (I’m not a student. I’m a math teacher.) In fact, I just re-took it (after 30 years) last summer. I thought it was hard. (And in summer school, I thought it went so fast, it was kind of like trying to drink from a fire hose.) And, really, it’s the last month of the class that’s the hard part. If you’re not liking partial derivatives and multiple integrals and stuff, you’re *really *not going to like line integrals, surface integrals, Green’s Theorem and Stokes’ Theorem.</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice. I have a test tomorrow on vector valued functions. I am really not prepared for it, but I will take it and see how it goes. When my results come out I will talk to my teacher and decide what to do from there. It’s just that I paid $340 out of my own pocket money to take this class and really don’t want to see it all go down the drain.</p>
<p>I know. And I’m sympathetic. I’m sure that $340 is significantly more money to you than it is to me. But the money has been spent. The relevant question now is whether what you’re doing is worth the struggle you’re going through to do it.</p>
<p>My mother once said something very wise to me. She said, “Every day you’re alive costs you money. Get used to it. After that, it’s all just a question of degrees.”</p>
<p>(BTW, my recent Calc 3 class in my local community college cost me more like $550.)</p>
<p>Will no math junior year affect my chances of getting into a competitive college?</p>
<p>I really do not think so. You’ve already taken more math than most colleges actually require for graduation. And you do plan to take AP Statistics next year.</p>
<p>And my parents will never let me hear the end of it if I quit as they told me not to take the class in the first place.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity what did u receive in this course the first time you took it and what did u get the second time sikorsky?</p>
<p>The first time, I was 19, I took it at Harvard, I did very little of the homework, and the class ate me alive.</p>
<p>The second time, I was almost 50, I took it at community college, I did all the homework, and I got an A. But it was hard.</p>
<p>Was the class difficulty any different between the times you took the course? I mean between Harvard and the cc?</p>