<p>I was going to sign our daughter up for Calc 2 at her community college and found out that it's been filled. This was surprising to me as there aren't that many students that pass Calc 1 to be able to go onto Calc 2. My guess is that students from other schools are taking up those slots because they are inexpensive.</p>
<p>So I checked the offerings at the State University (quite a bit more expensive). Almost all of the slots are gone and the remaining handful are rather early in the morning. So it looks like she isn't taking Calc 2 this summer.</p>
<p>The State University cut back on their summer offerings this year compared to last year too. Budget cuts I assume.</p>
<p>I teach at a cc and our we have a strong summer enrollment for the reason you mention - $$$. Summer money is gravy to community colleges since we get to keep largely all of it. Call the local cc and ask if there is a wait list or the possibility of adding an additional section. If there is enough demand and they can find someone to teach it, they would likely add it. The finding someone to teach it is a big “if” though!</p>
<p>We’ve used this community college for about four years and I have never seen them open up another section. They plan everything in advance and that’s what they do. They will close sections if there isn’t enough enrollment but I’ve never seen them add sections. I could always teach her myself too. It’s just more work for me. I was planning on assigning her research work for a pet project of mine too.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about your specific community college, but if she can get on a waitlist, talk to the teacher, whatever, she can probably get in. Full doesn’t really mean full, it means “only if you’re serious.” The exception to this may be lab sciences.</p>
<p>When the classes are full, they are removed from the registration system so that they aren’t visible so I wouldn’t be able to find the professors name without talking to someone in advising.</p>
<p>Oh, okay. Well, then I would imagine the situation is different there. The local community college here always shows them and shows how many people are signed up and such.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the college would accept credit from any online program, but if so that’s an option. Other than that I don’t know.</p>
<p>It’s probably worth investigating-- so she can go to the first meeting and ask if there is room. When this concern arose for my daughter at our local CC (in budget-stricken California) the math department secretary assured me that students who stick around for the first few meetings will often get into the class. (she said many students firmly believe they want to take Calculus classes and later change their mind…). My daughter ended up getting the class during the regular registration process, so we didn’t have to test this.</p>