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Hey guys i need some advice.

I will be registering for my freshman courses next week and i'm not sure which sequence to take.

Calculus and Analytic Geo I
Calculus and Analytic Geo II

or

Applied Calculus
Multivariable Calc

How would the second sequence look to adcoms, will they even consider it or will the marginal returns of taking the second sequence not be worth the risk to my GPA? My main question is will the second sequence give me a leg up to the adcoms or will it not have any weight? Thanks.
 
Verum said:
Hey guys i need some advice.

I will be registering for my freshman courses next week and i'm not sure which sequence to take.

Calculus and Analytic Geo I
Calculus and Analytic Geo II

or

Applied Calculus
Multivariable Calc

How would the second sequence look to adcoms, will they even consider it or will the marginal returns of taking the second sequence not be worth the risk to my GPA? My main question is will the second sequence give me a leg up to the adcoms or will it not have any weight? Thanks.
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Take the one that will give you an A. That is what they care about. A in "regular"prereq> B or C in super hard version of prereq.
 
Thanks. I will take the first sequence. The risk to my gpa from the second sequence seems to great. (even though i'm pretty good at math loljk)
 
i also agree with doctor. i took multivariable and it doesn't seem that it will be useful.
 
kpcrew2oo2 said:
i also agree with doctor. i took multivariable and it doesn't seem that it will be useful.
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Do you mind me asking how hard it was (in terms of study time) and what grade did you get in it?
 
it was a while ago but from what i recall, i just did the homeworks (maybe two or three hours a week). when i had exams, i studied about a total of about 8 hours for midterms and maybe ten hours the two days before the final. got a b+
 
kpcrew2oo2 said:
it was a while ago but from what i recall, i just did the homeworks (maybe two or three hours a week). when i had exams, i studied about a total of about 8 hours for midterms and maybe ten hours the two days before the final. got a b+
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Yikes.
 
What is applied calculus? I'm assuming something like vector calculus where essentially all you learn can be tied to a physics problem. To be honest, depending on if your major requires you to go on to higher level math, I would definitely take the second sequence. Calc 2 is difficult and can do more damage to your gpa than either of the other two courses. It's less conceptual and is more about learning how to perform the techniques that you will use in all your later upper level math/physics courses.
 
ShowandTell said:
What is applied calculus? I'm assuming something like vector calculus where essentially all you learn can be tied to a physics problem. To be honest, depending on if your major requires you to go on to higher level math, I would definitely take the second sequence. Calc 2 is difficult and can do more damage to your gpa than either of the other two courses. It's less conceptual and is more about learning how to perform the techniques that you will use in all your later upper level math/physics courses.
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What the hell? Have you taken it cal 2? It's the most conceptual part of calculus in that sequence.

Most likely the applied calculus is cal 1 with more emphasis on rates and changing conditions in context of a real life situation.
 
Venom5 said:
What the hell? Have you taken it cal 2? It's the most conceptual part of calculus in that sequence.

Most likely the applied calculus is cal 1 with more emphasis on rates and changing conditions in context of a real life situation.
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Sir I have but for me, it sure as hell didn't seem that way for me. It was all memorizing a la "Is this a geometric series, now how would I solve the solution?". Learning the techniques for integration wasn't too bad, but I can honestly say if I had to solve a series today, I couldn't do it. While for multivariable, it was more of less in my mind starting over calculus 1 except now you know all the techniques of integration and differentiation, and it's 3-d. Knowing "Hey, this line's curl = 0, therefore it's path independent and you can apply the fund.theorem of calculus to evaluate the integral", seemed like a more logical progression to me. On the last day of class for Calculus 2, my teacher announced she would curve everyone's final grade by 5 points, happy day for me and still got a B- in the class.
 
Verum said:
Hey guys i need some advice.

I will be registering for my freshman courses next week and i'm not sure which sequence to take.

Calculus and Analytic Geo I
Calculus and Analytic Geo II

or

Applied Calculus
Multivariable Calc

How would the second sequence look to adcoms, will they even consider it or will the marginal returns of taking the second sequence not be worth the risk to my GPA? My main question is will the second sequence give me a leg up to the adcoms or will it not have any weight? Thanks.
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What is analytic geo? Non-euclidian?
 
ShowandTell said:
Sir I have but for me, it sure as hell didn't seem that way for me. It was all memorizing a la "Is this a geometric series, now how would I solve the solution?". Learning the techniques for integration wasn't too bad, but I can honestly say if I had to solve a series today, I couldn't do it. While for multivariable, it was more of less in my mind starting over calculus 1 except now you know all the techniques of integration and differentiation, and it's 3-d. Knowing "Hey, this line's curl = 0, therefore it's path independent and you can apply the fund.theorem of calculus to evaluate the integral", seemed like a more logical progression to me. On the last day of class for Calculus 2, my teacher announced she would curve everyone's final grade by 5 points, happy day for me and still got a B- in the class.
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Yeah the specific tests for divergence and convergence were pretty straight forward... but its useless to memorize that without having a picture in your mind of what convergence really means. When I said heavily conceptual I was really talking about was Taylor/Maclaurin series polynomials.

And Verum.... don't get disappointed if you don't make As on everything. College is hard. Don't be the neurotic freshman premed who studies 24/7 and talks about medical school all the time.
 
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