https://www.deanza.edu/physics/courses.html
De Anza College, a community college, offers PHYS 50 (preparatory physics). PHYS 50 or high school physics is a prerequisite (in addition to the math prerequisite) to PHYS 4A (the first physics course for science and engineering).
High school students intending to study engineering or physical science in college are likely to take physics in high school because they are interested in it, even if their high school does not require it for graduation. The high school students who avoid physics in high school are likely to be the ones who will avoid majors requiring physics. The OP may be unusual in being one who did not take high school physics but wants to take physics in college, presumably for a major that needs it.
@ucbalumnus It’s not that I’ve tried to avoid Physics in High School or that I hated Physics. It’s rather that my situation in high school was a bit complicated. I transferred High Schools after my Freshman year and unfortunately later figured out that some of my credits from my Freshman year high school didn’t transfer to my other high school, thus holding me back a bit.
When I was a Senior in HS, I still haven’t taken and passed a prerequisite class for Physics(I’ve taken Environmental Science instead for Senior year) so by that point, it was too late for me to try to take it since I was already about to graduate at the time and it didn’t seem like it was worth becoming a super senior just for one class. Plus, during my high school years, I originally didn’t care for college(and attempted to enlist in the US Army til I got medically DQ’ed) since I felt like I wouldn’t amount to anything with my life and that no University would accept me because I was too average of a student with very little extracurricular background. It wasn’t until my friends and family kept encouraging me to enroll in CC after my failed MEPS test(for the US Army), that I started my college education and made up for all my high school screw ups with some remedial courses.
My friend at my community college took algebra based physics 1 and 2 first before taking the calc based physics. I wish I would have done this but I went straight to calc based physics without any knowledge of physics (never took physics in high school). Then I tried again at my transfer school I failed again. Now this summer I’ll be taking algebra based physics 1. Then in the fall I’ll be taking physics 2 calc based.
If I were you, take algebra based physics first then calc based!