<p>I'm a ecnomic major, and many schools I plan to transfer require ANALYTIC GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS I,II,and III. The problem is that I have only two semesters left before transfer, I won't be able to finish all of them. So I'm thinking to talk to the admision office in my school and let me take either Calculus I and II at the same semester or take Calculus II and III at the same time in next spring. And I'm confident in math, so is this possible or which two should I take at the same time to be better?</p>
<p>Assuming that your school’s content coverage in the calculus sequence is standard, then calculus II will most definitely depend on your mastery of material in calculus I whereas calculus III will be somewhat (although not entirely) independent of calculus II but not calculus I.</p>
<p>I did calculus I in high school, but calculus II at my school covered techniques of integration, a bit of proof-based exercises similar to analysis, sequences, series, parametric curves, polar coordinates, and a variety of other topics. Calculus III was more or less multivariable calculus (partial derivatives, functions of several variables, multiple integrals, maxima/minima, Lagrange multipliers, and so on) and vector analysis (vector fields, exact differentials/conservative fields, the integral theorems).</p>
<p>Therefore, it seems that the only feasible path (at least at my school) would be to do calculus I first and then calculus II and III simultaneously.</p>
<p>From one transferred econ major to a prospective one, the level of math class I had completed at just about every school I looked at (most of the top 20) and the ones I applied to was not going to be a problem. As long as you have usually completed one full year of Calculus (I & II, II & III) you will be fine. There is typically never a problem with taking those classes while you’re at the new school.</p>
<p>Business programs are a bit more picky because they typically have requirements for upper level courses that build off of the ones you’re supposed to take at certain times. Economics as a major in a Liberal Arts program isn’t really ever as picky because some people don’t even declare their major at the school until their sophomore spring (and they’ll be spending 4 years at the school).</p>