<p>Okay, so after using a forum on CC, I've decided to take Pre-Calc for senior year-- the problem is that I am already registered for a Calculus class during the summer. Should I stick with pre-calc, or drop it and tell colleges that I've registered to take Calculus over the summer? If I choose the latter, how do I tell them ? Do I need to have proof ( like a purchase receipt)</p>
<ul>
<li>Thanks so much for your help! I love CC.</li>
</ul>
<p>I am confused. Which summer are you taking Calculus? This summer (the one that is almost over)? Did you somehow cover the pre-calc material before taking Calc (or feel a need to go back and do so)? Did you get any kind of certificate or transcript for the summer Calculus course?</p>
<p>Debbie…what are you saying? Summer 2012 is almost over. Did you take a calculus class THIS summer or are you planning ahead? </p>
<p>If you are a senior who will be taking precalc before you graduate, that is what will appear on your transcripts. Anything you take summer 2013 will happen AFTER you graduate from high school. I’m not sure why you would be taking calculus then. If you need it for your college major, wait and take it in college.</p>
<p>Yup, on another thread, it’s summer 2013. And early app to Gtown, bio major.</p>
<p>I replied on the other thread. Plan to take precalc for your senior year, and take calculus at the college where you matriculate.</p>
<p>Georgetown.edu: Students who plan a concentration in mathematics or science should include four years of mathematics and at least three years of science.</p>
<p>I’m planning to take Calculus for the summer of 2013, that way I can have credits, or get exempt in college. High school Pre-Calc will serve as my intro for the college course–that I’ve registered for.</p>
<p>Keep precalculus your senior year in high school. Whether you take calculus next summer or next fall as a college freshman, you will need the precalculus knowledge in order to learn calculus properly and do well.</p>
<p>Debbie. As I’ve posted before…wait until you matriculate at a college. If calculus is required for your major, you may find that you will be required to take it at your college…and any previous course will not exempt you from this requirement.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Never heard of this, given the existence of super-brilliant math majors who have completed freshman calculus and sophomore level math while still in high school and then jump directly into real analysis, abstract algebra, advanced linear algebra, etc. as freshmen. It would seem silly to force such students to sit through freshman calculus again.</p>
<p>What colleges have such a policy?</p>
<p>(Not that it matters for the OP, who in any case needs precalculus before calculus, and is probably not the best candidate to take calculus in an accelerated summer session anyway.)</p>
<p>My husband took calculus both in high school and at a community college. He took it again as a matriculated engineering student. DD’s college did NOT accept any credits in courses required for the major…so if this OP went there (Santa Clara) and took a college level calculus courses elsewhere after matriculating (and summer after high school would be after matriculation) the school would not have accepted the college course. This OP is not presenting himself as an accelerated math student. He Is saying he plans to take calculus after high school graduation…and I’m just saying…why bother? Take it as a college freshman where he mateiculates…or check to be SURE the college will accept the course taken elsewhere…if it is required for his major.</p>
<p>Just FYI…a student who has taken much higher level math courses would not likely need to retake them in college. But for most STEM majors, calculus is a base required course. Even students who have taken high school calculus (as their highest math course) sometimes retake it in college.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>SCU’s limitation is only for the case of taking other college courses after initial enrollment at SCU, not for other college courses in general (whether “enrollment” for a new freshman means “sent in statement of intent to register” or “attended first day of classes” is something that one needs to ask the school). In other words, it is a fairly narrow limitation (though it may affect summer between high school and college courses, depending on the definition of “enrollment”) rather than a broad one covering “any previous” college courses taken during high school.</p>
<p>I don’t even understand what it means to take calculus in the summer. First semester differential calc or both diff and integral calculus the summer before college? IMO taking two semesters of calc in one summer is possibly asking for trouble.</p>
<p>A student can take first or second semester freshman calculus during a summer session, though a summer session is typically half the length of a normal semester, so the course meets for twice the time and covers material at twice the speed. It would not be a good idea to take both, since the first semester is a prerequisite for the second semester.</p>
<p>At a quarter system school, the summer is typically a normal length quarter, though a quarter length calculus course will not match up well to those at a semester system school for transfer purposes.</p>
<p>Ucba…yes, what you posted is correct for SCU. If a student took college level courses prior to matriculation, the school will accept the credits. My kiddo took a dual enrollment course at our community college/high school (anatomy and physiology). This, however, was a required course for DDs major and she had to retake it as a college junior. The community college course was considered a lower level course.</p>
<p>Anyway…my point is this student needs to check the policies at her university of choice. YMMV. </p>
<p>And, really, when she is applying to college, those colleges really won’t care at all that she intends to take a course the summer after high school graduation. So…what to tell the schools? Nothing…</p>
<p>Unless you are applying to one of the rare programs that expects you to have taken calculus before you arrive (such as Cornell’s engineering school <a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2013FreshmanRequirementsChart.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2013FreshmanRequirementsChart.pdf</a>), you don’t need to mention your plans for the summer of 2013.</p>
<p>But, you still need to be admitted- and that’s where the focus should be, for now. 12th grade pre-calc is behind what many of the competition will have, for STEM. </p>
<p>As a bio major, there’s an expectation you attended to the required sci and math classes- at the highest levels you could fit into your schedule. especially if you are thinking pre-med. For science, that’s AP bio and AP chem- at least one of these before 12th. Not AP stats, genetics or psych. Plus the calc issue. I can’t tell, over the many threads, what you have taken or what you scored.</p>
<p>My son took AP calculus in high school and got a 5 in the exam. However, he still took it again freshman year, as did many other students. It was a good way to get acclimated to the college, reduced stress, and he was not bored. He was a computer science major.</p>