CAL III at CC or Multi variable CAL in HS?

3scoutsmom
Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:45:06 +0000

Our school has a policy for a reduce tuition for DE but it isn’t free and there are a few extra costs, placement test fee, books and registration in addition to the tuition.There isn’t an option for taking CAL III online at our CC and there are only a few courses offered each semester, generally 3 evening classes at three different campuses and one of those is much too far away. CAL III isn’t a very popular class to take at our CC.

If her concern was which is the better class to take to impress an admission committee I’d agree the CC would be the better choice but that’s not the case here. D16 has excellent grades and test scores and will not have an issue getting accepted into OU.

I don’t believe Advanced Standing credit is discouraged at OU, from Center for Independent and Distance Learning - OU College of Professional and Continuing Studies;
“If you were a whiz in high school math, try testing out of one or more OU math courses.”
They also list the name of the text book to use as a study guide and report that 75% of those that take the MATH 2443 test pass it. But you do need departmental approval and I don’t know how individual departments look at it.

@ItsJustSchool can you tell me where on that website it says anything about concurrent enrollment being a 'better way to go" I’m not saying that it is or isn’t, but I just can’t see that page saying anything about it either way. It appears to be the rules for that high schools students to participate in concurrent enrollment. We don’t live in OK so none of those procedures would apply but D16 wouldn’t have an issue meeting any of those qualifications.

At this point I really need to figure out if there is any advantage to have credit for MATH 2934 over MATH 2443 It doesn’t seem to make a difference in METR major or MATH minor and I really can’t see her going for a MATH major, off to check out the requirements of a few other majors just in case she changes her mind!