Which would be more worthwile?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So, I have two options for the summer.</p>

<p>1st option: I am behind on math and would like skip a level by taking a course at my school over the summer.</p>

<p>2nd choice: I don't have any work experience and I have access to a paid internship. </p>

<p>To most, I assume math would be the obvious choice because I am in Alg. 2 as a junior, but the internship is in the field that I'm interested in: politics.</p>

<p>I'm not really into math, so would it be worthwhile to take Pre Calc over the summer? I've heard from many sources that it is reccomended that one must complete Calculus before graduation for admission to competitive schools.</p>

<p>If it helps, I'm interested in liberal arts schools.</p>

<p>Prospective majors: Political Science, Biology, Sociology, Criminology, Genetics, Biomedical sciences</p>

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<p>The internship would be better. There are other ways to get to calculus by your senior year, if that’s what you want to do.</p>

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<p>Those other ways would be…?</p>

<p>I can get an unpaid one in the spring in the same field, if that changes anything.</p>

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<p>Test out of pre-calculus or take two math classes in one year.</p>

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<p>How would I do precalc and calc the same year? </p>

<p>Also, do you think I could pulloff a self-study+the internship?</p>

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<p>If you’re relatively good at math, you could just buy the Barron’s SAT II Math 2C prep book and study that to self study precalc. I estimate it’ll take me about a month to finish the book, since it’s pretty short.</p>

<p>I’ve been self studying calc, as well, and contrary to popular belief, it’s actually not that bad to self-study. A lot of it is rather intuitive.</p>

<p>I’m falling behind in calc, tho :frowning: I’ve been focusing on other things LOL</p>

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<p>Hmm thank you, I’ll consider doing the internship + the self study then. </p>

<p>Let me see if there are other opinions.</p>

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<p>If you’re on block scheduling, take 2 maths in one year and do the internship. If not, just do the internship and self-study pre-calc.</p>

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<p>Technically you could take pre-calculus and calculus at the same time, because pre-calculus isn’t required to start learning calculus, and you could sort of pick up what you needed as you went. But your school might not let you do that.</p>

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<p>My school’s independent so they make their own rules. To take calc you have to pass a placement test.</p>

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<p>Boom nice answer. Get work experience and show schools you know math with calc 2 test.</p>