Do I need to take Calculus 2?

[joonkimdds]

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I transfereed from CC to 4 year University.
I met an advisor and she said I can choose either calc2 or stat.
I already have calc1 by the way.
Since stat is easier, according to what I heard from most people, I want to take Stat and so I don't have to risk my GPA.
This advisor told me that there r some dental schools that require calc2 and some don't.

If any of you know if there is dental schools that require calc2, could u tell me please? i can call all 50 dental schools, but it would be better to share info here.

 

[Dr. Dai Phan]

Hello,

You need to check for schools that you plan to apply if Calculus 2 is required. For the life of me I can't see why in the world you would be required to have such requirements. DP

 

[Generallee]

I transfereed from CC to 4 year University.
I met an advisor and she said I can choose either calc2 or stat.
I already have calc1 by the way.
Since stat is easier, according to what I heard from most people, I want to take Stat and so I don't have to risk my GPA.
This advisor told me that there r some dental schools that require calc2 and some don't.

If any of you know if there is dental schools that require calc2, could u tell me please? i can call all 50 dental schools, but it would be better to share info here.

I don't know of ANY schools that require Calculus at all! I have seen some that require stats however. Most schools will not require calculus. If you have a specific school in mind, pm me and I'll look it up on the "Official guide to dental schools". 🙂

 

[Rezdawg]

Take stats.

 

[polarnut]

no school requires calc

 

[Rajan247]

no school requires calc

the calc is just a pre-req for the gen chem series so take what you need to get into gen chem, otherwise dont waste your time,.

 

[devan_smith]

I transfereed from CC to 4 year University.
I met an advisor and she said I can choose either calc2 or stat.
I already have calc1 by the way.
Since stat is easier, according to what I heard from most people, I want to take Stat and so I don't have to risk my GPA.
This advisor told me that there r some dental schools that require calc2 and some don't.

If any of you know if there is dental schools that require calc2, could u tell me please? i can call all 50 dental schools, but it would be better to share info here.

If you have good grade and understanding of Calculus I, it will be easier for you to secure another A on Calculus II. College Statistics can easily mess up with your final if you're not familiar with its more abstract stucture, riddled usually in word problems.

 

[howui3]

i suggest taking stats!

in dental schools you might have to take biostat and if you want to get invovled in research and having taken stats will help a lot.

stats are not hard, just keep up with the material. Calculus is way harder.

Good luck.

 

[polarnut]

i suggest taking stats!

in dental schools you might have to take biostat and if you want to get invovled in research and having taken stats will help a lot.

stats are not hard, just keep up with the material. Calculus is way harder.

Good luck.

definitely take stats. i took math32b, which was multi-variable non-linear blah blah monstrocity i thought i had to take during freshman because i passed calc in highschool, only to realize dental schools just require general math. so i took 2 intro stats to finish my math requirement and boy, those 2 were the easiest classes ever.

 

[INFNITE]

the calc is just a pre-req for the gen chem series so take what you need to get into gen chem, otherwise dont waste your time,.

I don't recall using any calculus in general chem...maybe the reaction rate equations, but they generally give those equations to you (or you may have to memorize it). Physics use calculus much more heavily, so if you need to fulfill any physics requirements, you will need calculus. I took physics for engineers though, so maybe regular physics doesn't need as much calculus. Anyway, I would take stats instead of Calculus II. Stats is much more useful IMO.

 

[BallDontLie]

You dont really need calc, so take stats...but you might wanna check the requirements for your major if you are a science major. I dont know if its like this at all schools, but at my school, calc1 and 2 are required for your major in bio, cell&molec bio, microbio, chem, biochem, etc..

 

[Gl4di4tor]

the calc is just a pre-req for the gen chem series so take what you need to get into gen chem, otherwise dont waste your time,.

In my school Pre-Cal is the prereq for Chem not calc.

 

[joonkimdds]

You dont really need calc, so take stats...but you might wanna check the requirements for your major if you are a science major. I dont know if its like this at all schools, but at my school, calc1 and 2 are required for your major in bio, cell&molec bio, microbio, chem, biochem, etc..

My major is Biology and it says
Math 110, 111,113,114 or Stat 250 (6-8)


113 and 114 are calc1 and 2.
So i guess this means Calc2 is not necessary.... I guess.
But then again, I don't know what 110 and 111 are, I think they r very simple math. It may not make sense if i take those easy level and still manage to get B.S. degree on BIO, but if they are available, then hehe

 

[SirShagaLot]

i took Biometry, a biology stat class. It will come in handy in D-school when u want to survey a wetlands area & sample the gene pool, or something equally as relevantl and super exciting!!! It was easy though, ill give it that. 😎

 

[cdpiano27]

I am a stat PhD and my first course in stats was at Central Florida in which I only lost 5 points in the entire course. I usually never do THAT WELL in any particular class, no matter how easy it is!

ST 2023 and many of my fellow classmates in the graduate program are the TA for the introductory course, and most of friends wonder why some of the undergraduates just do not get it. IN fact most of the worst students are nonquantitative majors who have not had calculus at all! So if you had one semester of calculus you should definitely be fine!

IT IS ONE OF THE EASIEST CLASSES THAT I HAVE EVER TAKEN!

Since I am using this is the non calc-based stats, the following topics are:

Mean, median, standard deviation, Chebyshev's rule (which you DO NOT have to prove at this level) at masters level then you show convergence in probability and at PhD level well you have to show Lebesgue integrability so you see how the level changes.

Empirical rule (simple one standard deviation is 68%, second is 95%, third is 97.5%, etc) This is derived from the central limit theorem. Which is extremely easy.

Then you have a randomized block design. Again the main purpose of this is to decrase possible variance that might be due to factors besides the main treatment of interest. So if there is a particular factor that you are not that interested in, you block on this factor. If you have interested in both factors, then you use the CRD (completely randomized design).

Sound interesting?

Well, you get the point! Much easier and more intuitive than Calc II, which has stuff about Taylor's theorem, sequences and series converging versus diverging, McLaruin polynomilas, trig substitution (which is messy to learn at first), integration by parts (very important), and polar and rectangular coordinates (important) as well as volume and area using integration.

So take stats! IT IS VERY, VERY EASY!!!!! You may like it so much, and want to learn the calculus behind what you are learning, and end up wanted to delve deeper like me and eventually do a PhD in it!!!!

 

[drdmddds]

I transfereed from CC to 4 year University.
I met an advisor and she said I can choose either calc2 or stat.
I already have calc1 by the way.
Since stat is easier, according to what I heard from most people, I want to take Stat and so I don't have to risk my GPA.
This advisor told me that there r some dental schools that require calc2 and some don't.

If any of you know if there is dental schools that require calc2, could u tell me please? i can call all 50 dental schools, but it would be better to share info here.

You should grad the "official guide to dental schools" at www.adea.org the 44th edition will come out soon and it can answer that question. From my experience only a couple of schools (off hand I only remember Harvard) require Calculus. I would take both if I could b/c you never know if you might want to apply to those couple of schools, however statistics will help you more in life than calculus II which you will never use in life again 😕

 

[bkwash]

You should grad the "official guide to dental schools" at www.adea.org the 44th edition will come out soon and it can answer that question. From my experience only a couple of schools (off hand I only remember Harvard) require Calculus. I would take both if I could b/c you never know if you might want to apply to those couple of schools, however statistics will help you more in life than calculus II which you will never use in life again 😕

yep harvard requires cal I & II

 

[sunnymeliss]

bkwash is right - harvard wants a year of calculus (that's why I didn't apply there).
Boston U wants at least one course in calculus.