<p>What do you think i can do to skip a year of pre-calculus and go right into AP Calculus</p>
<p>I have the highest average in Alg 2 in the school, and I really want to excell right into calculus</p>
<p>Do any of you know any programs like Harvard SSP, I can sign up for to skip a year of precalculus? I am looking for ones i cna do over the smmer</p>
<p>You're not as smart as you think you are.</p>
<p>Ok, thats not the point. I'm asking if people know of things that can get me out of pre-calc....I only added that to include that i am devoted to my work and I have a good base</p>
<p>Consider a dual-enrollment summer course at a local community college or university. That's what one of my friends did.</p>
<p>I took my precalculus class on Florida Virtual School and I am going to take college algebra and calculus in dual enrollment.</p>
<p>well if you take it over the summer then your not skipping anything, you're just doing it some place else which isn't very uncommon at all. if your algebra 2 class covered trig then you could go without precalculus. if not, just teach your trig which is extremely simple. my friend took precalc online while taking calc bc in school and did fine</p>
<p>Precalc and alg II share a lot of material (i.e. I didn't learn anything new in precalc until like chapter 8/9). The only stuff precalc covers over alg II is polar and parametric equations, matrices, vectors, and some other misc. stuff. Your alg II class might cover that, so if you've taken alg II, study up a bit and go for it.</p>
<p>All I did was talk to my Precalc and Calc teacher. The Calc teacher made me take a precalc aptitude test or something and just let me in the class. So first talk to your teacher about it. If you really want to skip precalc, then they probably will just let you.</p>
<p>The AP Calculus exam has very little pre-calc in it, but college calc has pre-calc all over it. A CCer (aznpywd) skipped pre-calc and went into calc ab, he had little difficulty and excelled. I think if you are willing to work hard it will be fine. He took a pre-calc course over the summer at a community college.</p>
<p>My good friend skipped Pre-calc from Alg. 2 and went directly into Calc (due to a counselor oversight in her schedule, hehe...most of her friends were in calc). She had absolutely no problem adapting. Anyways, all the important things in pre-calc. are reviewed over at the beginning, then never addressed again in AP calc.</p>
<p>Thank You Guys For The Help!!</p>
<p>So i could very easily take a pre-calculus course here at a community college even if I don't get into Harvard SSP right?</p>
<p>This year i am scheduled to take geometry which has nothing to do with pre-calc so I guess I will have to talk to my Alg 2 and calculus teachers</p>
<p>I don't think harvard ssp is very had to get into...</p>
<p>yeah thats true...i was number 2 out of 323 in my freshman year and i heard of people being in the fifties and getting in...as long as u have money harvard basically will accept u</p>
<p>You may also consider taking other courses in a community college as well. If you have a shot at Harvard SSP, then you will make it into community college dual enrollment.</p>
<p>Precalculus is mainly the introduction of trigonometry. A good portion of it is a review of Algebra 2 though. Hey, your asian, you can do it! </p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>yeah man seriously....what do all of these people mean by dual enrollment? does it mean what it sounds like ? taking two classes at a time?</p>
<p>haha nope ^, dual enrollment is where you take college classes (usually CC) when you're still technically a high school student. You're enrolled in two institutions, hence "dual enrollment."</p>
<p>ask your principal/guidance if they first ALLOW skipping of precalc. i know for a fact that my school has a program where u can take a college course and skip math up to precalc, but they won't let u skip precalc. even if u take the course, you still have to take the school's midterm and final and get above a 92 on both to be able to skip the course. </p>
<p>i self-studied for a few months over the summer (meaning went in cold with nothing but my ridiculous natural talent for math lol) and took the midterm and final for algebra 2 and skipped it so went straight to precalc. i found precalc to be somewhat difficult, at least in comparison to calc. precalc has all this useless **** that takes 10 hours to do and then u get to calc and its like "lol hey look theres a way to do this in 1 short, easy step". even though it was uselss, its good to know the reasoning behind why it works (long boring stuff). its just like when in elementary school they taught you how to add/subtract/multiply/divide by hand, but once u get to higher math u do a lot of that stuff on calculators.</p>
<p>What grade are you in? Will you be a sophomore? If you're truly into skipping, then I guess it's the things others have said above.</p>
<p>I'm gonna be a sophomore (finished AlgII/trig H this year as a freshman) and I'm just going into Precalc, then Ap calc BC junior. But thats because I'm not that good at math. If you are, then go ahead and skip.</p>
<p>precalc is like the most important math you'll take in high school</p>