<p>Ok so I'm a senior and 1 of 6 seniors who are the first in our school to take precalculus as juniors. its a really small private school ha</p>
<p>so because of a shortage of teachers and $ they have given us the option of taking the calculus class online, but I'm dreading it. I've taken online classes before and done well but this class is HARD. its hard to self teach math basically with no book in front of you. So I'm going to drop the class while I can. Will this hurt my chances at top schools? I know I can't get an A in the online class and I am worried about my GPA. I already have enough math credits to graduate...I would like to take calculus but not online.</p>
<p>I'm planning on majoring in Pyschology/Premed and applying to Emory, Rice, UF, and Wake Forest (and a few safeties that I'm not worried about)</p>
<p>dont major in psychology!!!</p>
<p>there are few people more useless than psychologists</p>
<p>lol i actually want to be a psychiatrist.</p>
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Why not get a book, then? When it comes to college, you’ll find teachers and teaching methods with which you don’t click, and you’ll need to learn from the book when that happens, so why not start now?</p>
<p>If the colleges see that you could have taken calc but didn’t, unless you have other things going for you and can replace the course with something as impressive, you should stick with Calc and even risk getting <em>gasp</em> a B. If you go the pre-med route, you’ll probably need 2 semesters of college calculus for the top Med schools, so why not get started now? Even if you don’t receive credit for it, it’ll render the college-level courses that much easier, and certainly a B now will affect med school much less than a B in college.</p>
<p>the book is about $150 dollars. the school isn’t going to pay for 6. I’m aware that certain teaching methods will not click, but having a live person in front of you is better than a computer screen. </p>
<p>we’re just going to take AP stats online.
and colleges won’t know that I could have taken calc, its not really a class at my school</p>