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<p>Does the major at the school in question have such a tightly sequenced schedule that having to start in precalculus would throw off the whole schedule and cause late graduation? I.e. if the student has to take precalculus and calculus 1 in the first year (perhaps “catching up” by taking calculus 2 in the following summer) instead of calculus 1 and calculus 2 in the first year, would it throw off any important courses in the spring of the first year that have calculus 1 as a prerequisite?</p>
<p>The only majors that I know of that pretty much require calculus 1 (or higher) as a first semester freshman are in the engineering and physical sciences areas, but such majors seem to be unlikely choices for someone relatively weak in math.</p>