<p>So I didn't take physics or AP calc my high school year. Not taking physics (CP only btw) was my fault, but I didn't have a chance to take calc because my teacher didnt pass me in Alg I with a C+ in 8th grade (still my fault I guess). Anyways, my question is, in the very very slim chance that I do get in, does MIT offer physics and calc for freshman who never learned it or is everyone supposed to have learned it in HS. And if I do get accepted I will try to take a calc and physics class in the summer at a college, so there's always that chance, but this is just in case I can't</p>
<p>8.01 (mechanics) and 18.01 (single variable calculus) start right at the beginning of the subject material, so you shouldn't have a problem. In fact, there's even a slower-paced class, 8.01L, designed for students coming into MIT who don't have a strong high school background in physics.</p>
<p>Laura's certainly right -- MIT's introductory calc and physics classes start at the beginning, but speaking as someone who didn't take physics at all in high school, it's tough to keep up if you've never seen the material before. It starts at the beginning, but it moves very quickly!</p>
<p>If you can self-study one or both before coming to MIT, I think that would be a great idea.</p>
<p>Hey Mollie, I’m really into meteorology and atmospheric physics (and earth science / physics in general) but mostly meteorology - I’ve been studying it since I was 6!! But I have noticed that, while the graduate program has a lot, there aren’t very many meteorology courses in MIT’s EAPS dept. for undergraduates. I think I would be ready to take the graduate ones my sophomore year if I got in, but would this be allowed? I know you can pass into more advanced undergraduate courses by taking exams, but does that also go for the graduate classes?</p>
<p>(Heh, this is kind of related but not exactly. On the topic of classes, I suppose.)</p>
<p>Oh, you don't really have to pass into graduate courses -- it's very normal for undergraduates to take them, so you just sign up for them the way you would for any other course.</p>
<p>I took a grad course my sophomore year with no problems, and many more in my junior and senior years. (I'm not sure if this is true of EAPS, but in many departments, many/most upper-level undergraduate classes are held jointly with graduate classes.)</p>
<p>Yeah, MIT is very flexible about letting undergrads take most grad classes. If you have the prereqs, they'll nearly always let you in.</p>
<p>:D Yay!
And did you find that they were manageable?</p>
<p>Well, yes -- as I said, most of my upper-division courses were joint grad/undergrad classes. Grad classes are not necessarily that much harder, they just usually involve more things like reading primary literature.</p>