As a freshman, i skipped integrated 2 and 3 and am taking honors pre calc and AP Calc AB this year. Now i learned that this does not fill the geometry requirement for UCs. I took integrated 1 in middle school. Can i downgrade to integrated 2 after i take calc or take it over the summer ?
ps. My school runs on a 4 by 4 system
I’m not familiar with the “integrated” sequence, but my D17 skipped geometry as well and ended up enrolling in the self-paced BYU Online geometry class that meets the UC requirement. (Note that only the teacher-led version is UC Approved: https://is.byu.edu/catalog/GEOM-041-T003 and https://is.byu.edu/catalog/GEOM-043-T003 ) It turned out that there was also a summer geometry class through the school district that might have gotten it over with more quickly, but we didn’t know about it as it’s not well-publicized - it’s intended mainly for credit recovery. A number of private high schools offer summer geometry classes as well. Taking a full year of integrated 2 after you’ve finished calc doesn’t sound like a great use of time, IMO, but you’re right that you have to take care of this one way or another if you want to be eligible for UC admission.
I would first check with the school re the summer course. My D took geometry in summer school to move quicker in math after immigrating - we discovered the school district actually ran 2 different summer school classes in the subjects offered: one was for credit recovery for those who got D’s or Fs, and the other for kids like my D doing it the first time. Doing it through the district meant (1) it was free and (2) it automatically got added to the transcript, where a private course would have to be submitted separately. (In my daughter’s case, a private school option would also have meant an evaluation to see if the school accepted it in lieu of the district course as a prerequisite for further study, but that’s not an issue for the OP.)