<p>ah, ericatbucknell said that he would recommend taking calc 2 again. </p>
<p>I was wondering about that when I went to my admitted students day. I spoke with a senior engineering student and asked him what he would recommend. He told me that he would AP out of as much as possible and go straight into calc 3. He said it would free up your schedule (which it did) so I would be able to take more engineering electives in my later years, do research in my later years, and have more flexibility if I wanted to study abroad.</p>
<p>This past semester I was trying to figure out my schedule for the next three years with my engineering advisor and APing out of so many classes HAS given me greater flexibility with my schedule and opened up many options, but he commented on my calc 3 grade saying that he wishes he could tell students to just take calc 1 in high school and to learn the more difficult calculus here. He said that every year he sees students who did wonderfully in calculus in high school and who do extremely well in all their other classes, but cant seem to get the same high grades in calc 3. </p>
<p>So I guess I have mixed advice. Like ericatbucknell said, if you are extremely confident in your abilities, go ahead and take calc 3. I had a couple freshman engineers in my calc 3 class who set the curve on nearly every test and quiz. If youre going to AP out of a bunch of other classes, you might want to take it I found out that when you free up too much time, you run into issues. It really depends on what is important to you, getting calculus out of the way or possibly getting a better grade. </p>
<p>This really is only directed at engineering students and Im sorry its so mixed.</p>