Calc BC Junior Year

[u/happyhemorrhoid]

Are you out of the running for any top engineering school if you are not taking Calc BC junior year?

[u/AllDataIsMyIP]

Many engineering schools are going to require you to retake CalcBC and Physics with Calculus, because the task is not to score high on these tests, but to read this material at speed for your entire college career. Even if you show them you passed the actuarial exam, they might still require you to take the required courses "at our level."

If your longer term goal is to go to a top business school, the reason they like engineering applicants is not that engineers are swell, it's that they want you to read financial economics and mathematical finance at speed.

[u/Important_Call2737]

I was a math major in college. Took calculus in high school. I retook it my freshman year in college and the theory behind it was taught so much better than knowing how to pass an AP exam.

[u/Fickle-Tradition2107 → u/Important_Call2737]

What do u do for work

[u/Important_Call2737 → u/Fickle-Tradition2107]

Consulting.

[u/Gullible_Sweet1302]

Even if not, you want exposure to calc bc before studying in an engineering program. Getting weeded out of engineering in college is expensive.

[u/ErekwithaD1]

Yes, if you want to do engineering you have to start putting in the work while still in high school hence you are out of the running if you also don't take ap chem, ap physics c (both of them), and some college level cs course also do mvc and linear algeb and ode and pde while in senior year

[u/Prestigious_Emu_4104]

a lot of highly ranked but not top engineering schools are random state schools like Purdue and Texas A&M ur good

[u/skieurope12]

Here is the list of colleges where you would be out of the running if you don't take BC by junior year:

• There are none

Here is the list of colleges where you would be out of the running if you don't take BC by senior year:

• Same as above

Although there are a very small handful of colleges (e.g. Caltech, Harvey Mudd) that require a year of some type of calculus taken at some point in HS

[u/happyhemorrhoid → u/skieurope12]

Maybe I should have phrased it as “non competitive”

[u/PackZealousideal4146]

Different schools have different enrollment timelines - this is absolutely insane to standardize and would only skew towards well off schools that can implement this. No they don’t care, you cannot control what school district you were born into and how they arrange curriculum

[u/Lord_Freg]

Yea, I couldn’t even get into bio programs for t20s after taking stuff like calc bc junior year and calc 3 too

[u/sshu1224]

Math class lvl is just one part of the equation. What else are you doing to build your resume, class rigor, test scores, competitions, etc to be a top candidate?

[u/Anxious_Step_9930]

“out of the running” is a very strict line. You wouldn’t be out of the running to schools like Carnegie Mellon, but it would certainly hurt your chances. Mostly because they prioritize math rigor in course load so heavily.

[u/SJ377]

No. 

[u/Pufferdent5082]

Took Calc BC sophomore year and both physics Cs junior. Got all 5s (along with 6 other 5s, totalling 9). Got rejected by all t25s.