Question: I am taking level 1/honors course in pre calculus junior year...?

Question

is it a bad idea for me to drop down to level 2 calculus senior year? will colleges not like that?

Answer 1

I don't think you will have any problems. If it even comes up in the admissions interview you can always say that you wanted to lighten up your work load for other classes, or that you were trying to improve your grade point average to give you a better chance to win admission at the college of your choice. Both are the truth and are perfectly acceptable answers.

Honors courses vary from school to school and the fact that you took calculus in high school will have a very positive effect on your chances for admission. What also has a very strong effect is your final grade point average.

Calculus is calculus even if you just go over it briefly. It won't make much of a difference if you take level 1 or 2. It will make even less of a difference if you take a major that doesn't require calculus.

I know that at my old college incoming freshmen were required to take pre-calculus and calculus no matter what they took in high school. These two courses were "weed" out courses, made especially hard to get rid of poor performing students. It doesn't take a lot of work to make calculus a very tough course. If this is the case in your intended college then it won’t matter what level of calculus you take in high school. You will have to take it again in College.

In my case I took calculus in high school, but I didn’t do very well. When I went to college, in a non-engineering major I had to start over at Trig. Thanks to my high school work I did better in Trig than I did in high school, then I took pre-calculus and later calculus. Then I found that calculus was my wall. To finally pass the course I had to take the tougher engineer version so I would get the lab help. Then I did very respectably. I never used calculus in my major, but I used a lot of formulas that were derived from each other and without calculus I couldn’t understand that. For example every single formula in standard physics is derived from Mass =force X acceleration. If you know that and know what divertive your formula is then you can reproduce any equation you need.

I took an architecture degree plan so I had to take statics and dynamics and a course in fluid dynamics. All of which were straight physics in action. We learned new ways to handle those basic formulas to get new information. As with many college courses the knowledge you get in one course is required before you can understand the next higher course.

College is a lot tougher than high school. In high school the requirement is to graduate the least common denominator; another words the low average student. In college there is no requirement to graduate students, in fact they take pride in the early drop out rate, which shows that they are a school with high standards. Now days a high school degree will open only a very few doors for you, like being a private in the military. Most of the rest of the business world and all of the engineering world have much higher standards and require a lot more knowledge. So it is the job of the college to make sure you are prepared to enter the real world.

In high school, taking 7 courses I only had to spend 3-4 hours of study a night to do well for an average total of 24 hours per week of study. In college you need to spend twice as much time studying as you do in class. A course like calculus would be a 3-4 hour class and you will need to spend a minimum of 6-8 hours of study just for that class. If you took a light course load of 15 hours a week that means you need to spend at least 30 hours of study a week. The average college recommends that their students take 18 hours a semester for a total of 36 hours of study giving you a 54 work hour week. If you want to graduate in only 4 years then that is the course load you are looking at.

To sum up, I would take the lower honors level course to improve your overall grade point average. Then check your course requirements in the colleges of your choice (it will all be laid out in the Student Manual) to see what courses you have to take. If you pick engineering major then you will most likely have to take calculus again. If you have a good fundamental knowledge in the area then you will do well and that will increase your GPA which is the holy grail in college.

Answer 2

Contact your Senators, and every other Congressperson you'll. But that's relatively notable. I have bought a Congressional Nomination to USMMA on means not up to that, and am looking forward to an appointment now. If you aren't getting into the Academy, I will relatively be amazed, that's very notable. And simply to mean you can realize, every body is aware of a General or an Admiral. I might have got a letter of reccomendation from the prior Captain of the USS Texas. But relatively, you're set simply with that. For your Congressional Nomination, get a letter of Reccomendation out of your CO, (Maybe an extra NSCC officer), the USN LCDR, and a few different academics. It must nonetheless support. (And simply to explain, you AREN'T a Senior, proper? Because if this is the case, too overdue for this 12 months.)

Answer 3

No, colleges won't like that. Colleges will especially like it if you were to take AP Calc instead of just level1/honors Calc.

Answer 4

it is better to drop out because collage will think if you did not drop out you will probly fail so drop out when young