<p>blueiguana, </p>
<p>I have heard from several friends who have kids in VT engineering that they felt having their s/d take the Calc class again in college was helpful, regardless of how it was taken. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t get too hung up on the approach that Tech uses. They are so proud of the reputation of that engineering program I highly doubt that they would jeopardize it by having those kids not learn what they needed to in order to succeed. I am sure had it not been working and the upper level profs saw that their students were not prepared, it would have been changed. Too much is riding on that school’s excellence. It is unconventional, but it must be working.</p>