Starting in Calc 1?

ucbalumnus
Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:57:26 +0000

GLOBALTRAVELER:

I know some folks may disagree with my next statement BUT technically a potential computer science major could start at Pre-Calculus as a freshman and STILL graduate on time.



This likely depends on the school; at a school with an “engineering” type curriculum for CS (including a bunch of physics, electronics, etc. courses and long prerequisite chains), starting in precalculus instead of calculus may find it hard to graduate on schedule due to the crowded schedule and long prerequisite chains, since not starting calculus immediately delays a lot of other courses.