This is a confusing question!

[crystal02]

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I am a high school senior. I will be attending Ohio State next fall studying premedicine with a major in psychology. This year I am taking Calculus. We use the University of Pittsburgh curriculum and the course will give me 4 credit hours if I choose to take them. The credits will transfer, but not the grade. Therefore the grade I get will have zero effect on my GPA. When it's on my college transcript though, it will say Calculus-4 if I got an A, Calculus-3 if I got a B and so on. I don't excel at math at all. Math classes in college would potentially hurt my GPA. I would love to take these credits and get math out of the way, except for statistics which I think I have to take for my psychology major. Is more math involved than statistics and a college math class? I didn't think so. So I definately want these credits. But what if I get a C? Then it will say Calculus-2. Are the med school people going to frown on that? Will they even notice that since its not affecting my GPA? Will that ever in any instance be a major contributing factor to acceptance/rejection? I know med school is way off for me, college is still a year away, but this decision IS immediate, whether to take these credits or not and I thought I could use some opinions. Thanks!!

 

[FLY]

Please take that calculus class and work HARD on it and DON'T take it in college ....and you are not going to get anything less than a B b/c most high school teachers understand that you are pushing your limits taking college classes in H.S. and they tend to curve the score at the end.

I took AP Calc in H.S and since I already got accepted to my first choice college, I kind of skipped my afternoon AP classes most days and even made a 16/100 on a test...(long story)..made a B in the class and at the end took the AP test and had a 4/5 on it...and I was placed out of Calc I in college...but I decided to take it again in college so that I could start off with a high GPA...I had a foreign teacher who could hardly speak english..and although most foreign teachers are smart..this one was kinda on the other side..and when all the other people started to drop the class after few days of his class..I decided to stay on just to be like nice...I SHOULD HAVE DROPPED IT..

I thought I was going to make an A for sure after I had a 98 on my first test...then a 58 and a 53 followed and I had to get an 90+ on the finals just to make a B..and I had to work SOO hard to get that... But looking back on it...this is what I would have done..

I would have placed out of Calc I with my AP score..and then would take the Calc II at a local uni/comm.college during summer....b/c Med Schools really don't care about those math classes...and I got this from a top notch student who is surely gonna be a great doc one day...I met him in my Calc II class at a local college during summer time....he was also from the same university I went to and he was a Junior..and he was placed out of Calc I in H.S. and taking Calc II in the summer after his junior year at a local university... So work hard on your math class and place out of it and don't even think about taking math class w/t all the math majors during the regular semester when you should be studying for Physics and Organic etcc.....

Hope this long reply helps??....