This upcoming school year I’m gonna be in 12th grade and was wondering if colleges judge whether or not you take a math class all four years or not? During 11th grade I’ve already taken everything up to and including AP Calculus BC and that’s the highest my high school has to offer. I could possibly try to enroll for College Algebra but can’t sign up for Calc 1 or Calc 2 because I passed the deadline to take the accuplacer to enroll into it.
You should verify this but “college algebra” is most likely just algebra2/trig offered by colleges and given a confusingly different name to somehow disguise the fact that they are awarding college credit for a high school level math course that is commonly required for hs graduation. Probably not suitable for you. If you’ve already taken calc BC, that is supposed to cover both calc1 and calc2 and so no point in taking those either–you would probably need calc3 or in some cases differential equations or linear algebra–the progression isn’t always identical in every college.
You can try to see whether it’s possible to get into an appropriate class, but if not, I wouldn’t worry about it too much as long as you are taking an otherwise challenging schedule. Talk to your GC about options.
in my state most colleges require 4 years of math. when we reach ap calc bc then we have to take a higher class at another school (really inconvenient).
Does you school subsctibe to Naviance? It’s the easy way to find the info. If you view a college’s profile and click on the Admissions info tab, the bottom of the webpage will show how many years of each HS subject is required or recommended.
You can also find the HS course requirements by Googling “Common Data Set <>”
Look in section C5.
But there can be a difference if you hope to study stem (or some humanities with math needs) versus other majors.
You’d be fine as bc is considered equivalent to 4 years in most cases (on math and foreign language, it’s level reached that matters).
College algebra is equivalent to pre-calculus so not appropriate.
I agree if you want to major in stem that calculus 3 (perhp spring semester?) would be a good idea.
Have you looked for Dual Enrollment?