Should I take calculus?

[sdhen]

Currently, I am a dual enrollment student, meaning that I am attending high school and college. I was thinking about taking college calculus next semester as it's one of the requirements for a biology major at the university I plan to attend, so i'd have to take it in the fall when I start university regardless.

The reason I am planning to take it now is so i can have more time to focus on it, since I will basically have nothing else to do the next semester since it's my senior year in high school and things are fairly easy. I was thinking I would take it now so I have the time to put most of my focus towards the class and attend tutoring. My only problem is that math is a very weak subject for me and I have basically not learned anything in math for the past four years of high school apart from some algebra.

So i'm thinking my options are either
1. take this semester to focus on calculus and attend tutoring
2. Wait until I start university and fresh up on all my math until then.

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[TheBiologist]

have you taken high school precalc or trig?

then yeah if you think you can do well in it

 

[sdhen]

have you taken high school precalc or trig?

then yeah if you think you can do well in it

I haven't taken precalc but I did take statistics and trig, which i found fairly easy.

 

[TheBiologist]

I haven't taken precalc but I did take statistics and trig, which i found fairly easy.

hmmm, ask your high school advisor if your schools trig class is enough of a pre-req for college calculus

wouldn't want to jump into something then sink

 

[Turkishking]

Currently, I am a dual enrollment student, meaning that I am attending high school and college. I was thinking about taking college calculus next semester as it's one of the requirements for a biology major at the university I plan to attend, so i'd have to take it in the fall when I start university regardless.

The reason I am planning to take it now is so i can have more time to focus on it, since I will basically have nothing else to do the next semester since it's my senior year in high school and things are fairly easy. I was thinking I would take it now so I have the time to put most of my focus towards the class and attend tutoring. My only problem is that math is a very weak subject for me and I have basically not learned anything in math for the past four years of high school apart from some algebra.

So i'm thinking my options are either
1. take this semester to focus on calculus and attend tutoring
2. Wait until I start university and fresh up on all my math until then.

If you feel confident go for it. My friend took AP statistics his freshman year and did fine.