<p>I'm in a bit of predicament right now. In my junior year, I didn't take Pre-Cal and now as a rising senior I have Pre Cal on my schedule instead of what should be Calc. I want to take Calc senior year because I feel like it would help when I go into engineering and also because I feel like colleges might not like that I didn't take Calc in high school. What should I do? Also should I take Calc AB or BC? </p>
<p>Oh yeah, I asked my counselor before if I could get credit for Pre Cal during this summer, but it wasn't allowed</p>
<p>Personally, I believe that would be difficult. If its not too late, can you enroll at a local community college and take a PreCal/ Cal class (you can audit it at a lower rate).
If you are going directly to Calc without it. STUDY OVER THE SUMMER.</p>
<p>Of course, as an engineer, you’ll have to be used to hard work.
If you’re very ambitious, you could take the BC test after self-studying BC and taking AB because I believe the BC test has an AB subscore???</p>
<p>Thanks for the help. I tried looking online for courses that would give me credit, but no luck 
The main thing I’m worried about is that during admissions, colleges will probably not like that I didn’t take Calc during HS especially since I’m going into engineering. Do you think if I take the SAT Math II, it will make it seem not as bad? That is, if I score 780+.</p>
<p>How did you do in your previous math? If you excelled it may not be a huge step up?</p>
<p>I’m auditing a Calc class this summer then taking it during the school year because the math at my school is competitive and the teacher is extremely difficult.</p>
<p>You could also take PreCalc then take Calc over the summer? </p>
<p>I think it depends where you want to go, that it would be very important.</p>
<p>And the 780+ would of course help.</p>
<p>You may be slightly weaker because of this on math, but doing things like the SAT and excelling at science should make you a more competitive candidate.</p>
<p>I’m in the SAME EXACT situation! I was planning to finish precalc over the summer nd take calc next year.</p>
<p>Now I’m just procrastinating… But I believe i will finish eventually if God may.</p>
<p>your lucky your school offers calc at all… I’ll probably end up self studying calc too…</p>
<p>by the way khanacademy may help with pre calc… I’m using the website it’s just aweeesome</p>
<p>Well I did pre calc online at EPGY… my school took the credit did you try that?</p>
<p>@SaraCo I took AP Stats junior year. I did pretty well. First sem avg was 99, second was 98.</p>
<p>The main problem is, I have no clue where to even start. I should probably talk this over with my counselor and see how I can solve this problem. Hopefully I can test out of Pre-Cal or something before I enter senior year. Also 2200andbeyond, thanks a looooot for the site, this will definately help a lot :D</p>
<p>@swiftfan13x I tried looking up online courses, but it didn’t really help because all I got was the not so helpful yahoo answer. I will definitely look in EPGY and see if my school accepts the credit</p>
<p>So there’s this website called ucgateway.edu which is a list of all the classes that the uc’s accept
I’m thinking if the UCs accept it other colleges should too</p>
<p>I live in Texas right now and I don’t think I will be going out of state since I already have auto accept at A&M and possibly UT-Austin. But that’s not to say I will be able to enter the engineering school. </p>
<p>Man, the US needs to change their education system, it’s so stressful. I need to move to Finland</p>
<p>I wouldn’t reccommend skipping pre-calculus. You’re much better off starting college with Calc 1 and a strong foundation than skipping a class and being behind/stressed/etc. It’s really difficult to succeed in high-level math classes without a strong base. </p>
<p>I would reccommend Pre-Calc as a senior, then take Calc 1 the summer after if you want to start with Calc II in the fall. </p>
<p>It’s really not worth skipping math classes, you’re behind for years…</p>
<p>I emailed my counselor and apparently she’s not even in the office right now and won’t be until august… I think I will just either self-study Calc or take it during the summer :/</p>