<p>I’ll finish CalcBC Junior Year. For Senior Year Math I was thinking of doing EPGY Multivariable Differential Calc in the Fall and EPGY Multivariable Integral Calc in the Spring. At Stanford they have quarters, so these clases are designed so most people would do 3 classes in a school year not 2, so I would be doing these at a pace slower than normal. </p>
<p>However, I’m going to have 4 other AP’s (EngLit, Chem, Econ, CompSciA) plus orchestra and be doing college apps. Most colleges don’t have that kind of crushing load, I want to go into engineering and I need to learn MV calc well. </p>
<p>My alternative is to do Multivariable Calc and then Linear Algebra at Harvard Extension, but that Multivariable Calc doesn’t seem to go into as much depth as the EPGY. Also, the Harvard classes meet for 3 hours once a week. I think I’d be better off with the flexibility of EPGY.</p>
<p>Will colleges view stretching MV Calc over the whole year as taking it easy?</p>
<p>Education Program for Gifted Youth, it’s the same as CTY but offered at Stanford. It has a variety of ways to get in so it’s lenient unlike CTY.</p>
<p>It costs money and the best time to get ahead in math is over the summer, just work all day and then you can jump 1-3 grade levels. You have to talk to your school about placement and credits though. The schools might require you taking Final Exams to prove it.</p>
<p>Is it really worth taking and paying for college classes now. Like couldn’t you just wait until college?</p>
<p>Also on a side note. I am in Math Analysis right now. It’s like precalc/calc. I want to do Calc 2 at a community college, but for that I would have to take the exam for Calc 1. I am trying to learn the material in 2 months because that is all the time I have. Do you think I could pass? Is this a good idea or should I just wait a while.</p>
<p>sure, take it over 1 year, but make sure you take advantage of that and learn it well - then maybe you can place out in college. In my school we take it for one term, but it’s not that rigorous and most people end up taking it again in college…so think about that too</p>
<p>it’s just splitting up multivariable calc into 2 parts. the names basically tell the story, integrals + differentials with multiple variables, instead of single vars (calc ab + bc).</p>
<p>the names can vary, but i don’t think multivariable is the same as intermediate.</p>
<p>In college it’s Calc I (differentiation/beginning integration), Calc II (integral techniques, power series, etc), and Calc III (multivariate), so I’d suppose intermediate calculus is Calc II. Unless “advanced calculus” is analysis.</p>
<p>The best way to know is to look at the syllabus and see what they cover.</p>
<p>I would go for it, you can always drop it. And whether or not you’ll have to repeat it depends on where you go to college. Many people in my multivariable class now (at Duke) took it in high school, and it is nothing like it, ie. much harder. </p>
<p>I also know people who took BC at some point and took a break from math, so my opinion is to try, you can always enroll in stats or something easy at your high school.</p>
<p>I dunno, but I got passed the Calc BC test and I took the next course available at the local community college. The class is called intermediate calculus, and we’re doing multivariable integration and derivation, (I’m assuming that stuff like partial derivatives and multiple integration is considered multivariable calc) and the class is only 4 months long. So my answer to the original poster is that multivariable calc is easily doable in one semester (or one summer). Either that, or my math class isn’t teaching the full curriculum.</p>
<p>The Stanford EPGY sure seems like more depth, but I don’t really know. Nonetheless, even if its doable in one semester, I woudn’t mind doing it over two just to ease my load with 4 other APs and college apps. Do you think colleges will hold it against me if I do that? As far as my high school is concerned, I think it will be considered taking two college courses for a full year of math.</p>
<p>Also, MIT teaches all of CalcBC in one term 18.01. Their MVCalc 18.02 is also one term. Doesn’t it seem reasonable that if I do MVCalc over a whole year in high school that it would be about the same pace as CalcBC?</p>
<p>the class i’m taking now is teaching basically the exact same stuff as the harvard extension course, but i have lectures twice a week. the harvard extension course only meets once a week, so you’re probably not going to get as much help or personal attention. however, multivariable calc is not that difficult, and i don’t see the the point of Stanford stretching the subject out into two courses. its your choice.</p>