<p>Hi, based on my school's placement, your Math course is based solely on your ACT Score. I only achieved a 23 in the Math portion which places me in college algebra. I'm enrolled as a Civil Engineering major. I didn't find this out early enough in time to retake the ACT. I actually do excel in Math and am confident that I would be placed in Calc I if my school would offer placement tests. What should I do? Because at this rate it would take me an extra year to earn my degree would it not?</p>
<p>Check with your college adviser.</p>
<p>Try these placement tests to assess your readiness for calculus:</p>
<p>[Calculus</a> Diagnostic Placement Exam | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley](<a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam]Calculus”>http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam)
[Placement</a> Test](<a href=“http://math.tntech.edu/e-math/placement/index.html]Placement”>http://math.tntech.edu/e-math/placement/index.html)</p>
<p>If you are confident that you are ready for calculus, check with your college advisor.</p>
<p>I talked to my advisor, I even had my high school teacher write a letter of reccomendation saying I am qualified for a Calc I course, I also asked if I could take another school’s placement test, and that wouldn’t be accepted either.</p>
<p>Have you asked the math department about other means of placement into calculus (e.g. taking a final exam of the courses you want to skip)?</p>
<p>It does seem highly unusual to use ACT score and nothing else to determine math placement.</p>
<p>Try to plan out your course schedule to see how long it would take you to graduate. Some departments are more willing to make accommodations, if you are able to show that it would take you longer to graduate.</p>
<p>wouldnt really take an extra year unless you planned on taking Cal-based physics your 1st semester. if you were, then yup, you wouldnt be allowed w/o Cal I co-current. Or you can just take Algebra in Fall, Trig in Spring, meanwhile take Chem I and Chem II in respective semester. I think you can bypass Pre-cal if you have A in algebra and Trig. 3rd semester you can catch up with Cal I, physics I. Summer I and II to catch up on others if you need. </p>
<p>To make classes fit your schedule (avoiding time conflict)… you’ll probably have to take the “non-important” / simple classes online. i.e. Govt, Hist, Elective. Just an idea… but I, personally, did take about 5-6 classes online.</p>