BananaSandwich15

I read on the Penn website that the Wharton School requires its students to have taken calculus, but I can't complete that requirement. When I graduate I will have completed four years of math, but the highest level I would have completed is Pre-Calculus. I took Algebra my freshman year, Geometry my sophomore year, and Algebra II (college) algebra my junior year. The only way I could have completed the requirement for math would be if I were a year a head... I would be willing to take a summer course in Calculus, but I'd have to wait until after my senior year... can I still apply to the Wharton School? Is there any place on my application I can explain the situation?

crashingwaves

It won't help you but I know more than a few Wharton kids that took 103 here (which is equivalent to calc 1). As long as you took the most rigorous math sequence that your hs has, you should be ok.

legendofmax

In all honesty, yes, you can still get in even without having taken calc in high school, but it's quite a bit harder because they usually want to admit students who have taken calc, since Wharton's very quantitative. I think as long as you've taken the most rigorous schedule you could have taken, as crashingwaves said, you'll be okay, especially if you take a calc class over the summer (if your grades have been good in math, then they'll likely assume your calc grades will follow suit).

ilovebabypink

Where does the "Penn website that the Wharton School requires its students to have taken calculus"?

Can you please link me?

MissBarbara

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freetense

this surprises me since most whartonites suck at math

ilovebabypink

damn - that sucks! I take IB Standard Math