I’m in community college I decided to take a semester off from math. How will college look at this? I’m planning on taking precalculus spring and calculus in the summer. I’m a prospective meteorology student.
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Why? You’re already behind…look at your recommended academic plan.
Meteorology, PSU
1st sem. Calc 1
2nd sem. Calc 2
3rd sem. Calc 3
4th sem. DiffEq
You are in your third semester, like me, correct? And you haven’t even started on the calculus series? IIRC, PSU said you couldn’t transfer until you took at least through Calc 3.
Spring 2016 precalc, fall 2016 calc, spring 2017 calc 2, fall 2017 calc 3, spring 2018 diffeq. You won’t be able to transfer until you’ve been in CC for four years!
Weren’t you going to be a math double major?
Edited again to add: Summer classes, especially math ones, are hell. It’s pretty hard to learn 14 weeks of material in 12, 10, or even fewer weeks. So you will have to work HARD if that’s going to happen.
I’m taking DiffEq at penn state. That was my plan from the beginning.
Spring: precalc
Summer: calc 1? I might end up taking it
Fall: calc 2,
Spring: calc 3
PS: I’m still going to double major in math, just that this semester I thought it would fit but it didn’t. Had to dropped it at the last minute
You are literally 1.5 to 2 years behind, though. Do any of your upper-division classes require calculus of any sort? I bet they do, or you wouldn’t have to take the higher math. So you’ll have to put off your major classes until you finish the math sequence. Which will happen (maybe–I don’t believe that a first pass at Calc 1 is going to work out in a short summer semester) in the fall of your fourth year. And then what? Spend two or three more years catching up on the things you couldn’t take earlier? Pushing Precalc to this spring pushes back BOTH physics classes. METEO 431, for instance (a sophomore class) has a prereq of Physics 2, which has a prereq of Calc 1 and is meant to be taken concurrently with Calc 2. So a sophomore class at Penn State has prereqs you won’t be done with until junior year. Maybe your CC doesn’t even offer that kind of thing, so you have to take it after you transfer.
You’re going to be in school for a LOOONG time, is my point. I’d have been taking every available chance to catch up. Like this past summer. Or summer 2014.
(Edited to fix course number. I meant 431, in semester 4 of the academic plan I’m looking at.)
https://rap.psu.edu/node/364
Firstly, I won’t need to take 431 until I take Meteo 300. Meteo 300 is a course that prepares you for 400 level courses. When I visited Penn State, they told me take everything up to calc 3 and physics 2 which is phy212 at pen state.
As of now, I’m kind of behind but not really.
http://www.met.psu.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/undergraduate-courses/checksheets-course-sequencing/transfer-student-course-sequencing-2014
On-track meteorology students would be taking Meteo 300 right now, then, according to that chart. When will you?
Alternatively, prereqs you are missing from that chart: Chem 110, Math 140, Math 141, Phys 211, Math 230, Phys 212. As a sophomore, you have not yet started the classes a freshman takes. If you’re fine with paying for five or six years of school (maybe more! Double major!), whatever, it’s your life; but I don’t understand why pushing back NECESSARY prerequisites isn’t concerning you. From a schedule that included gen eds like Macroeconomics and CPR, you dropped Precalc???
From the beginning, I’ve been behind every since I got placed into intermediate algebra. If it weren’t for that I will be in calculus 1 by now. But, I guess that didn’t happened.
Sprint semster will probably look like this:
Effective speech
Micro or intro to criminal justice
Pre-calculus
C++
General chemistry 1
I’m doing the 3-6-9 program where you can take 3 credits in one of the categories and 9 in another. I don’t think you knew you could do that at penn state.
I’m doing it myself: 9 humanities, 6 arts, 3 social sciences. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
Isn’t it 9 social sciences, 6 humanities, 3 arts? I guess you can pick which order you want!!
Any combination: “a sequence of 9 credits may be developed in the arts, humanities, or social and behavioral sciences by substituting 3 credits from one of the other two areas.” I came in with lots of humanities credits thanks to AP World and APUSH. Using those so I never have to take a history class again.
Oh! I get it now! Thanks for that!
Another trick I’m using (may or may not be helpful to you, dunno if you want to take a foreign language) is that you can petition them to get a foreign language class to count as arts. So between my 9 AP hum credits, 3 credits of Spanish, and 3 of econ (counts as social science), I only have 3 credits left – planning to fill them in arts with creative writing.
I was told you I don’t need to take a foreign language. I guess for transfer students you don’t need to take it??
It’s required for some majors but not others, if I remember correctly. My friend in Comp Sci has to take one but no other engg major does. I’m doing it anyway for a potential minor. The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences seems to only require a foreign language for two specific majors (not meteorology). Bachelor of Arts in Math has a 12th-credit-level requirement (Bachelor of Science does not).