A bit of a complicated question about math placement

lenmonster
Sun, 18 May 2014 13:16:24 +0000

Maryversity, agree with your points. I think he personally feels the D grade was not for lack of mastery, but because of some poor choices during the semester, but in my mind, it depends on the comprehensive final grade, which he has to wait to find out. The biggest issue is that it’s blocking him from starting his major sequence, and he’s already so far in on Gen Eds, it forces more and more time, but he really needs to be in the class he belongs.

Again, probably moot point because he most likely will score into the course.

Another related question…

If he decides to take Calc this summer at his community college:

A. Will it transfer (as MATH140)
B. Can he take it just for “practice” and it won’t count as an attempt at UMD…so if he gets a poor grade but just uses it as prep for 140 to assure a good grade, is that cool?

I know once you are enrolled at UMD, you can’t take math outside of it. But when is he officially “enrolled”?