Vanderbilt first semeseter course load too hard?

bernie12
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 04:46:28 +0000

@fdgjfg : Do you think VU has any loopholes (like contacting instructors and showing the credentials/evidence) to help the OP out with the mathematics issue (doing up to calc. 3, but not having specific credits for it)? Like can they maybe “skip out” of certain math courses and accelerate to say…diff. eq or particularly linear algebra (the logic in LA is super useful if you have to learn higher level CS stuff and of course diff. eq is great for if you will do mathematical modelling of any kind). Would be sad if a person with that experience needs to start all the way over when they have that strong of a background. Just seems like a waste of time. If they are accelerated, they can even avoid taking a math course the first or second semester knowing they’ll have instant access to intermediate courses whenever they do want to take math again.