<p>Looking at decision results, quite a few students across all the CMU schools have taken or are taking Calc BC, which means that they can skip Calc I and Calc II if they have a 5 on the BC exam.</p>
<p>Would I be at a disadvantage if I only skip Calc I with a 5 on the AB exam?
Should I study for the BC exam after taking the AB exam last year, or should I just take Calc II at CMU to get a better conceptual understanding of the Calc II curriculum?</p>
<p>If you got a 5 on AB, you know calc well enough to skip calc I without many negative consequences.</p>
<p>Calc BC pretty much corresponds to Calc II at CMU, no one I know who skipped it has any regrets in doing so. </p>
<p>You’ll be doing so much calc practice in homework anyway that all the rust should be shaken off within the first few assignments at school. Skip and use those AP creds unless you feel like you truly don’t deserve them.</p>
<p>Skipping that second semester of calculus won’t harm you, and it will allow you to take some more advanced (and fun) classes earlier. Also, even if you don’t get a 5 on the BC test, you can still skip out of Calc 2 by scoring high enough on the CIT calculus placement test. I know many people who either only took Calc AB or only got a 3 or a 4 on the BC test that ended up placing out of Calc 2 and doing just fine in Calc 3D during their first semester of freshman year.</p>
<p>If you get a 5 on AB, you skip Calc I (21-120). If you get a 5 on BC, you skip Calc I and II (21-120 and 21-122) and go straight to 3D. I had a 5 on AB, and went straight to Calc II. I had no problems at all. I don’t know anyone who has had problems due to placing out of a calc class. However, I do know a lot of people who chose not to, and were unhappy with their decisions - they ended up bored, then didn’t try hard, but then didn’t do well, etc. </p>
<p>Also, as others said, it’s really nice to free up your time to take other classes, rather than repeating material you’ve already covered.</p>
<p>I think they’ll give you a math placement test during the summer before you start. When I was admitted, the CIT students took a math placement test online, and that combined with our AP scores determined which level of calculus we would start at.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m an international CIT freshman (2012). I took A-levels and I’m kind of confused about the credits… </p>
<p>Referring to this: <a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/hub/registration/docs/cambridge-credit.pdf[/url]”>www.cmu.edu/hub/registration/docs/cambridge-credit.pdf</a>, if I score an A in Math, Chem and Physics in A-levels, do I get to skip some courses? How do they calculate your overall GPA without that class then? Especially for calculus, from what I understood from the CMU site we will have to take the calc placement and/or take a calc class anyway?</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m not familiar with the US academic system at all :/</p>