<p>in terms of workload and content. </p>
<p>Calc 1 (MATH 1110) or BIOG 1500? </p>
<p>I want to take Calc 1 my second semester because it seems like a pretty busy course and I want to have time to adjust to Cornell.</p>
<p>I was just going to take BIOG 1500 instead on my first semester, but I haven't really heard anything about that class really. </p>
<p>I already took AP Calc this past year btw, but I'm not really afraid about forgetting things. I don't knoow..this is probably like a super noob and dumb freshman question. But thanks for any responses :D </p>
<p>Also, does it matter which semester I take Calc 1 in? Like is second semester going to be harder than first semester?</p>
<p>ALSO…I have a 5 on one of the AP english exams… it exempts me out of one semester of FWS but does it matter which semester?</p>
<p>Are you an Animal Science major? I’m assuming you want to be a vet lol. I will be new to cornell as well. I’m not sure how difficult calc is, but advisor told me that it’s difficult and highly advised me to take it a local cc before I arrived. I couldn’t since my cc did not offer that. I am a straight A math student, so I think that her telling me calc was hard is the truth. I think it’s not going to be easy regardless, but I have to take it and I might as well get it over with. Bio is easy, but supposedly tough at Cornell. Good luck.</p>
<p>If you think you have a very good understanding of math then go ahead and take Calc I. The main issue is that professors are very arbitrary about what they put on exams and what material they’re going to explicitly cover.</p>
<p>^ I know that a lot of high schoolers take AP calc and then take calc again in college. I think if someone has already taken calc in high school they have an advantage. But, what about someone who has no knowledge of calc?</p>
<p>You would have to start somewhere since Calc I is probably one of the more basic math requirements for a number of folks. The unfortunate thing is that you’re taking your first math course in Cornell’s math department. I had taken AB is high school and decided to do Calc II for a certain major requirement. Even as someone with prior success in math, I found the class itself to be difficult (not so much the actual material). Calc I and II are single-variable calculus, but deal with different topics. In Calc I, you would probably be going over some “pre-calculus” algebra and then jumping into limits, continuity, and derivatives.</p>
<p>Calc I will be my last math course. I don’t have to take Calc II because I took stats instead. So trig is not involved with calc? Because I was required to take that and I did.</p>
<p>The best thing I can think of is that you would need to find the limits and derivatives of certain trig functions. Trig is more of a nuisance in Calc II since you would need to know angle formulas and do a lot more manipulation to solve the integrals.</p>