<p>Do I have a shot at being an engineer? I know i'll have to work hard, but I think I will be at some sort of a disadvantage. I've been accepted to Rutgers School of Engineering. I got a 640 on the SAT MATH (don't know if that matters 1970 composite).</p>
<p>You’ll be fine. I had a composite of 1950, only took to precal in high school and now have a 3.8 cumulative at a Top 15 engineering school. I got B’s in Calc 1 and Calc 2 and felt at a little disadvantage, but go A’s in Calc 3, Diff eq and linear algebra. What you do in high school matters very little. It’s your study habits that will determine your grades.</p>
<p>Edit: I’m a junior btw</p>
<p>Most schools’ engineering degree programs list the standard sequence of courses with freshmen starting in first semester freshman calculus. As long as your precalculus knowledge is good (so that you will not have to take precalculus in college after doing poorly on a placement test, or struggle in freshman calculus due to difficulty with needed concepts from precalculus), you should be fine in freshman calculus. Only a few very selective schools assume that freshmen enter having already taken calculus.</p>
<p>Here is an example placement test to help new freshmen without AP credit select a math course:
[Calculus</a> Placement Exam | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley](<a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam]Calculus”>http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam)</p>
<p>I actually think you’ll be fine. I just finished my first semester as a freshman and made an A in Calculus I. The highest math I had in high school was Algebra III. Never took pre-cal. At the beginning of the semester I was a bit lost and didn’t do so great on the first test, but caught on quickly. Also, a classmate of mine from high school did the same thing at another school this semester. So, if you work hard enough, it will be no problem.</p>
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<p>I only went up to some course called “Analytic Geometry” in high school, just a course past Trigonometry and I ended up a math major. I had a grand total of zero AP credits.</p>