We toured in the spring the college of engineering day. My daughter really liked it. She is attending the Engineering Camp the end of June to get a deeper dive on the campus and professors, because the camp is run by actual engineering professors! yea! She is very anxious about her schedule for next year, and what classes the average accepted engineering student has taken. The SAT scores and the recommended classes are for the university at large, and she believes, and probably rightly so that the college of engineering stats are probably higher than the average for the university as a whole.
She is in AP Physics 1 this year, will be taking Physics C next year. She is taking IB Engineering Design next year, and I guess her question mark is should she take AB or BC Calculus next year…she has honors Pre-Calc this year. She is expecting, regardless of how well she does in calculus in HS, that she would retake the first level at college because several individuals, including a current teacher who is a former practicing engineer, said that AP Calc (even BC) is vastly different focus than Calculus for engineers. She doesn’t have a single soft-class in her schedule next year, and has a major project due for her IB STEM Career Academy program. Do you think not taking BC would be a detriment? Other question is AP Physics C better than AP Physics 2? Is it advisable to consult the professors while she is at camp? Or would they not really know how admissions views things?