Senior Year Grades Dilemma

NativeTexan
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:26:48 +0000

Did you take Calculus (differential or integral) prior to this class and did you sit for the AP exams?

If you did not sit for the AP, the only was to validate the lower Calculus class is through USNA validation tests. Multivariable calc will probably not really help you on those validation tests.

Coming into Plebe Academic year with no math class for the previous year will make Calculus much more demanding and difficult than it need be. USNA wants 4 years on math - see what math class you can drop down to for the next quarter or semester as I would suspect you are to late this semester and the D will show on your transcript. Luckily for you at the moment USNA does not request midterm grades - at least they did not for my son who had both the LOA and appointment durning his first semester.

If you can not lower the course get a tutor for this course. Also spend some time brushing up on Calc I and CalII (AB and BC AP Calcs) and try to sit for the AP tests at the end of this year, so that when you take the validation tests plebe summer you will not be totaly out of the math mode.