<p>Please Help! I am a newly admitted student to TCU and I will be majoring in engineering entering the fall semester of 2012. I will be a freshman and so I am fairly new to signing up for classes, so any help from current students or administrators would be greatly appreciated. For engineering I have to take the 10524 Calculus 1 class, but in order to enroll in the class I need to pass an online placement test offered by TCU or send in my Calculus AB AP score of a 3 or higher. The problem I am having is that the AP score will not be available to me until July 1, at which time I can learn my score over the phone and then have to figure out a way to prove to TCU that I achieved a score of a 3 or higher. (If anyone can help me with figuring out how to send in that AP score as soon as possible that would be highly appreciated as well). The problem though is that the online placement test takes about a week to be processed and allow me to register for the 10524 class, assuming I pass the online placement test which should be no problem. So my main concern is that the class time that I would like will fill up for the 10524 Calculus class before I can prove that I am qualified to take that course and I will have to settle for a different time period in the day, making my schedule very scattered and not at all what I would like. Does any current student or administrator have a suggestion for how I can solidify my place in my desired time period class? There is no option to be put on the wait list</p>
<p>It’s an unfortunate fact of life that colleges students do not always get their preferred class sections. Learn to live with it. </p>
<p>If your preferred section does fill up before you have a chance to register, check back periodically. Normally a few students will drop the class in the first two weeks of the term, and you can register for the class then.</p>
<p>I am in the Honors college so I will not have this problem after the first semester. May I ask what your relationship is to TCU? Are you a present student or administrator?</p>
<p>According to this page:
[TCU</a> Department of Mathematics](<a href=“http://www.math.tcu.edu/mathcore.html]TCU”>http://www.math.tcu.edu/mathcore.html)</p>
<p>You can also register for 10524 after sufficiently high SAT subject tests in math.</p>
<p>Note that they also say that a 3 or higher on the AP calculus test fulfills 10524, although they only recommend skipping it with a 4 or higher (the next course is 20524 if you do skip it). It may be a good idea to see if old final exams for 10524 are available to check your knowledge of the material in that course before you decide whether or not to skip it with AP credit.</p>