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<p>I hope you’ve learned your lesson: Never, EVER, take advice from a government bureaucrat on a topic they know NOTHING about.</p>
<p>First off, the statement assumes that you are an idiot that wouldn’t be able to pass AP Calculus anyway, so why bother recommending a guaranteed FAILURE to a person applying for a program where failure is decidely frowned upon?</p>
<p>Second, high school AP Calculus, at it’s absolute worst, is nothing to the stress and challenges faced by an uperclass Midshipman, let alone a Plebe.</p>
<p>The person who gave you that advice was a certifiable moron, which is probably why they work for a MOC rather than having a real job.</p>
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<p>Lesson II: Don’t leap before you look, and if you look and see a punch of jagged rocks below, DON’T LEAP.</p>
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<p>On the face of it, no, but you may have “some ‘spalnin’ to dooo”. Be honest. Tell them you took a course that was WAY ahead of where you were and that while you may have managed only a D, that it taught you to better evaluate decisions to ensure that a) you can succeed, or b) that you need further preparation before tackling that challenge. Turn it into a learning experience and make sure they know you’ve learned from it.</p>
<p>Oh, and while you may not have aced the course, you still proved the original moron wrong: YOU PASSED. :D</p>