No math classes taken in college?

mathmom
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:56:29 +0000

My younger son didn’t take any math in college. He took BC Calc in high school. I think he got a 3 with 4 on the AB part of the exam. At that point he knew Tufts would only take 5 of his AP Courses so he kind of blew off studying. He majored in International Relations. Courses that might have use a bit of math were Econ and Ecology.

A year and a half after graduating from college he decided to apply to Officer Candidate School - he had to take a pretty comprehensive test which covered a lot of math and physics and engineering type of stuff that he had not seen since high school and some of the engineering physics he’d never seen at all. I don’t think he needed the calculs. He sat down with review books and taught himself it all again. Apparently he did very well on the exam.

If your placement test says you are okay, you probably are. If you want to review I’d check out some review type books from the library.