Which math class to take

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I have the decision to choose between college algebra and AP Calc.</p>

<p>Some things you should know before helping me in my decision:</p>

<p>I do not like math</p>

<p>I am a mediocre math student, but do well enough to keep up with the smart math kids </p>

<p>Plan on pursuing a vocal performance degree with the pre med program. It is nice you can major in anything and still be premed.</p>

<p>college algebra is only a semester where as calc is two, therfore, I will have space open for another class, perhaps even a college block.</p>

<p>I will have five math credits by the time I start next year, so I am not really needing the credits.</p>

<p>all of my other classes next year are AP our something else difficult like chinese</p>

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<p>Take senior math!</p>

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<p>if you want to do anything premed you better take AP Calc!!!!!</p>

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<p>What did you take last year? If you haven't taken precalculus (or trigonometry) yet you should probably take college algebra (I think that's equivalent to trig...or Algebra II, I forget which one). You pretty much need trig for calculus.</p>

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<p>If you don't like math, expect a lot of day thinking "why am I doing this? what's the point of learning math?" in your AP calc class or while you're doing homework for that class. This is happening to somekids who are in my AP calc since they only signed up for this class just for the sake of IB Diploma or to impress colleges.</p>

<p>But since you're thinking about premed, you definately want to consider taking AP calc. Does your school offer AB, BC, or both? If you have a choice, you can take the AB since it's not as hard as BC. If you're a "mediocre math student," you'd probably have a hard time in BC, but I think you'd still do fine in AB.</p>

<p>And you definately need to have taken precalc (or trig, or elementary function) in order to survive calc.</p>

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<p>well, i am in trig right now and I took algebra 3 last semester so... I guess I should take calc. <em>a tear falls slow down his right cheek</em>( just kidding)</p>

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<p>Take Calculus.</p>

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<p>I'm assuming you took precalc, and if thats true taking college algebra would be useless because its the same as the 1st half of precalc (verticle/horizontal asymptotes, logarithims, etc.), and furthermore if you're going premed it would be very foolish to pass up the AP calc (it will be easier in HS rather than college).</p>

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<p>AP calculus</p>