<p>Is being in Algebra II my Junior year going to be a problem for top-tier selective colleges? I am going to plan to double up next year and take Trignometry and Pre-Cal.</p>
<p>Yes. Many top applicants take up to calculus AP senior.</p>
<p>bump 10/ char. There was a test given in the 8th grade to determine if you move up in math. I was absent that day.</p>
<p>^Please don’t use that as an excuse… Yes, it might be a problem. You should double up.</p>
<p>For the very top tier, yes, algebra 2 is a bit low, although if you are strongly interested in the liberal arts and have a strong showing there, it might be okay. I would try to find a way to move up. Two kids I know who are 10th graders now are doing so.</p>
<p>Well…you’re on the same pace as me. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, we’re behind when you compare us to the typical college bound student across the country.</p>
<p>Most people take Algebra II their Sophmore year, precalculus their junior year, and AP Calculus their Senior year. Some even take Algebra II in Middle school after Algebra I and are on the track to taking AP Calculus their JUNIOR YEAR. To me, that’s insane. :P</p>
<p>If you’re school offers AP Statistics, you can take that your senior year. Colleges would prefer seeing that over Precalculus. Alternatively, you could take Precalculus over the summer or right now even.</p>
<p>Check out [Welcome</a> to Florida Virtual School: an online e-learning solution](<a href=“http://www.flvs.net%5DWelcome”>http://www.flvs.net) </p>
<p>Florida Virtual school allows students from other states to request online classes. You can take Precalculus on the summer via virtual school, and take AP Calculus your senior if that’s the route you want to take. </p>
<p>Your own state may also offer an online school, so that may be worth checking out. You should definitely talk to your guidance counsoler. If you do extremely well in Algebra II, some math teachers could make an exception and let you SKIP Precalculus. Again, this depends on alot ofother things. Talk to your guidance counsoler. ;)</p>
<p>~ Theos</p>
<p>By the way…</p>
<p>When you check out [Welcome</a> to Florida Virtual School: an online e-learning solution](<a href=“http://www.flvs.net%5DWelcome”>http://www.flvs.net)</p>
<p>Make sure you look at the Global school section of the site if you don’t live in Florida. Anyone across the states, and I think even in other countries(not 100% sure on that) can sign up for courses.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>~ Theos</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s just not free for out-of-state students.</p>
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<p>I don’t see why it’s not valid since a lot of colleges don’t even look at freshman grades. It’s kind of ridiculous to make decisions based on what happened in eighth grade.</p>
<p>it’s gonna be hard
most selective colleges want you to go up to calc.</p>
<p>But dont you have to take trig and then you have to take Pre-Cal before AP Calc? Even if i do double up, I wouldnt get into AP Calc.</p>
<p>And dont tell me to not use that excuse because thats what happened. Im doubling up senior year.</p>
<p>How is pre-calc and trig doubling up? Around here they are the same class, usually taken in 11th grade (sometimes 10th or 12th though).</p>
<p>Here we are taught trig in both algebra II and pre-calc, so we don’t have an actual trig class. I think when there is a trig class, trig isn’t in the curricula of other classes. </p>
<p>I don’t think doubling up on trig and pre-calc would be difficult since the two are often taught as one class. I really don’t see how trig could be stretched out over an entire year, but maybe they teach you things which we don’t learn since we don’t have trig.</p>
<p>IMO, precalc is just algebra 2. You could just go over trig over the summer, it isn’t that hard to self study, just some basic trig identities. That way you could start AP Calc your senior year.</p>
<p>trig is a big part in precalc though.lol.</p>
<p>Take pre-calc/trig at community college in the summer, and move up to calc if you want that “most rigorous coourseload” box ticked off.</p>
<p>Well, I do know they are two separate classes. If I am not required to take Trig/Pre-Cal/AP Calc in that order you better believe I will skip right on to Pre-Cal and AP Calc.</p>
<p>Is there a way you can get credit by exam (i.e., “test out”) for trig or precalc? My school offers that option for most science, math, and foreign language classes. I took both semester finals for advanced algebra and got As (more commonly known as “algebra II”) without having taken the classes, and my school gave me credit (without the hundreds of dollars a community college would charge). Since I had taken sophomore-level math in middle school, I was able to take AP Calc in my sophomore year.</p>
<p>In my school, the sequence is algebra, geometry, advanced algebra, trig/precalc, AP Calc.
I know that some students in the same situation as you (either taking geometry as a sophomore or advanced algebra as a junior) who want to take AP Calc in their senior year are choosing to test out of either advanced algebra or trig/precalc; they are studying over the summer. If you’re really motivated and are decent at math, you shouldn’t have too much trouble.</p>
<p>Aren;t Trig and Pre-Cal separate courses. When I look at my school’s offered classes, they are different. Maybe I could take 1 and go for AP Calc.</p>
<p>i took alg2 freshman year</p>