<p>I am currently a Junior and am enrolled in both Linear Algebra and Calculus 2 at a local community college.</p>
<p>Should I take Multivariate Calculus/ other math classes over the summer?
Would it benefit me in terms of college admissions, or would it be perceived as "O this person has money to spend for summer classes"</p>
<p>Any advice on this?</p>
<p>Bumping this up.</p>
<p>Bumping this again</p>
<p>I am not bumping this</p>
<p>I want to know, too. I’m bumping it. </p>
<p>Do you know if you get the class added to your GPA if you take it at Berk over the summer? How about if you take it at a community college?</p>
<p>I have no idea myself, but according to others’ posts here, taking a college class in summer won’t give you an edge in college admission, it’s like taking another AP class. But you do get benefit from learning something ahead and get some college credits. And maybe the college will know you did something during the summer instead of playing computer games.</p>
<p>What if it’s Number Theory, Multivariate Calculus, or Abstract Algebra. College level math classes at Berkeley won’t help in the college admission?</p>
<p>So if what I’m hearing from CC is correct…
Summer Program like Math Camp > college level math class?</p>
<p>^^ probably on your guess
i think classes are too generic, but camps may focus more about learning/thinking creatively than classes. maybe.</p>
<p>But the difficulty of taking Multivariate Calculus at UC Berkeley is clearly greater than a math related summer program.</p>
<p>I better finish my Ross/ PROMYS apps.</p>
<p>I am not bumping up this thread by posting.</p>
<p>Still waiting for good advice</p>
<p>@ Derivate:</p>
<p>Here is what I personally think:</p>
<p>From what it looks like, you can take either a math class at Berkeley or go to a very prestigious math camp; you will learn a lot either way. But, the real question is what have you done with that knowledge? Are you going to spend the school year after that furthering what you’ve learned over the summer?</p>
<p>Now, I had a fellow highschooler who took MAT 55 before his senior year, but he went to USA/Canada MathCamp every year before that and also qualified for USAMO. But MAT 55 was a different experience, a more formal and more structured and fast-paced setting; he did very well regardless, and he was also accepted to almost every college. </p>
<p>If you take a math class at Berkeley, do it with a purpose other than getting into college. Use the class as a resource onto your own explorations! If you go to a mathcamp, you will learn more things, you will quite frankly learn how to think alongside some of the brightest mathematicians in your class. It will be more soically rewarding. </p>
<p>But in the case that you do not get into a math camp, then by all means take a Berkeley class but like I’ve said, do it with a purpose. Btw, taking Multivariate at Berkeley is not harder than Mathcamp. Quite frankly, in mathcamp, you find alogrithms to rubik’s cube or look into open-ended problems or study Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem. A bit different heh? :p</p>
<p>Good luck in your endeavors.</p>
<p>^ I am only looking into these math classes because I got rejected from MathCamp which I applied for.</p>
<p>From the looks of it, I’m about to be rejected from the other 2 math summer programs, so these classes are my default.</p>