<p>Hi. My second semester of my Junior year started last week. And for my math curriculum, I was switched from a regular precalculus class to an honors precalculus. But I already went to class for three days and it was pretty difficult. So I was thinking about taking honors precalc class at an UC approved place to learn previous material and the difficulty will be much less harder than taking it at school. But what I'm worried about the most is that will it look bad on college applications if I took a math course outside of school? The schools that I will be applying for are UC Berkley, Boston University, Cornell, UPENN, Georgetown, University of Virginia, George Washington University, Boston college, and Rice. Please respond ASAP.</p>
<p>You’ll be fine. That will have no material effect on your chances at any of those schools.</p>
<p>It has no effect whatsoever. Do not worry</p>
<p>It’s been three days, right? Have you talked to the teacher about getting caught up to the rest of the class?</p>
<p>Maybe I’m ridiculously old-fashioned, but getting caught up without enrolling in an entirely separate class seems like a plan to me. For one thing, it’s less expensive. For another, it’s probably less time consuming. In addition, if you talk to the teacher of the class you’re currently in, you’re guaranteed that the teaching you get will mesh with the teaching the other students have had, and the teaching that your teacher expects you to have had. If you go elsewhere, you can’t be sure of that. Your classmates might, for example, have spent a great deal of time on matrices and matrix operations, while a class outside your school might give little or no time to matrices.</p>
<p>Enrolling in an outside class really seems over the top to me–a little like deciding you need a new car because your current car is dirty.</p>
<p>I cannot catch up to the class because the school nor the teacher has time for that. I’m really concerned that if I took Honors Pre-calc at a learning center it will look horrible on my transcript and the people viewing my application wouldn’t accept me.</p>