Typical Math Courses for Pre-Business Students

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<p>S will be entering OSU this Fall as a pre-business student. Any general guidance from current students or parents in terms of fulfilling the math requirement for a student who has successfully taken Honors Calc at the HS level (A- range)? Is Math 1131 the typical course? if so, how is that course? What other math courses do many pre-business students take? Any courses to clearly stay away from?</p>

<p>I know the math placement may dictate options, just looking for a few typical options most freshman pre-business students with HS Calc take. S is decent at math, not in love with it, so wants a course he can comfortably do well in to fulfill requirements, so he is able to apply for his business major ASAP. He plans to major in Marketing.</p>

<p>Thanks for any input!</p>

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<p>I don’t think you get many options about where they will want you to start. It really depends on your placement.
Here’s a link about math placement for business pre-majors: [Fisher</a> College of Business | Pre-Orientation: Math Requirements](<a href=“http://fisher.osu.edu/undergraduate/future-students/pre-orientation/math-requirements/]Fisher”>http://fisher.osu.edu/undergraduate/future-students/pre-orientation/math-requirements/)</p>

<p>Here’s one with details about current classes but bear in mind the numbering has not been updated for semesters (I think 1130 would be 130): [Courses</a> | Department of Mathematics](<a href=“http://www.math.osu.edu/courses/homepages.html]Courses”>http://www.math.osu.edu/courses/homepages.html)</p>

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<p>RMGsmom, thanks for the links, very helpful. S is completing Honors Calc now, so am encouraging him to take the placement test at the end of the semester. We’ll go from there.</p>

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<p>Doesn’t apply to everyone, but this still may help:</p>

<p>My friend took AP calc in highschool and tested into Calc II at Ohio State. He found that this course was very hard, especially as a first quarter freshmen, and wished he would have started in Calc I (even though he tested into calc II). I tested into pre-calc, which was fairly easy, and went through Calc I and II getting A’s. </p>

<p>Although I had to take more classes, I think it was beneficial to acclimate myself to the way college courses are before jumping into a hard class. My friend wishes he would have started lower, because he killed his GPA in his first quarter with a C (he was not a C student by any account).</p>

<p>Just a bit of advice!</p>

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<p>OSULolz</p>

<p>Thanks for the insight, that is kind of what I expected to hear. How many math courses are required for pre-business students? If he placed in pre-calc, how many additional math courses are required? Is there a calc for business students? S would like to fulfill requirements to apply to his major (Marketing with Sales concentration, at the moment anyway) ASAP and just doesn’t want math requirements to kill his chances.</p>

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<p>Well, we are currently on the quarters system (and that is how I will graduate, so I don’t know a ton about semesters), but for us you needed to get through Calc II. For me this meant Pre-calc, Calc I/II, which was 3 quarters, so I assume you could take the equivalent under two semesters. </p>

<p>There was a business calc series that from what I understood was marginally easier, but I took the regular calc series because I started off in Computer Science. Beyond that (again, under quarters) we also had to take an easy, basic stats course. </p>

<p>Sorry I’m not very tuned in to semesters, but hopefully that helps!</p>

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<p>Thanks OSU, it does…got it, need to get to, and through, Calc II. S is currently in a block schedule high school, so pretty familiar with semester approach, hoping that helps him manage well with the change at OSU to semesters as well. :)</p>