<p>I took AP stats my senior year of HS and passed. Will I be able to skip the first year of math? I heard it was basically algebra 1, which I took in 7th grade.</p>
<p>Never live in the past but always learn from it.</p>
<p>Depends on your major and school. At my school, all students are required to take at least College Algebra or math for liberal arts in addition to a statistics or computer science class.</p>
<p>Again it probably depends on the school At my school you have to take college algebra and liberal arts math, but you don’t have to take them freshman year. I did, cause I wanted them both out of the way, but you can take them any year that you want.</p>
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What is considered “first-year college math” depends on the selectivity of your college. At mine, it’s calculus. Anything pre-calculus is considered remedial math and won’t count towards gen ed requirements or a major. </p>
<p>Whatever the standard terminology, there’s a very good chance that your college will have a placement exam to help you pick an appropriate math class.</p>
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Are you saying that your college does not let students test into more advanced math classes? Or that everyone is required to take some math and those are the default options?</p>
<p>Liberal Arts 1 and Liberal Art 2 (Or College Algebra to replace Liberal Arts 2) Those are the 2 you HAVE to take. You can’t replace one with say Statistics or Trig. you have to take them.</p>
<p>^So one wouldn’t be able to replace Liberal Arts Math 1 and 2 with courses like Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra? That absurd.</p>
<p>I have another question – I’m a rising senior in high school, and I just got a 5 on my AP Calculus AB exam. If I take Calculus BC and get a 5, will it satisfy the general math requirements for most schools? I dont really want to take a higher level calc class in college, and I’ll be majoring in something definitely not math related (nor science, no engineering)</p>
<p>^It’s different for a lot of schools. My college does not accept AP credits, but I know people at other colleges who fulfilled their mathematics requirement by getting a 4 on the AP Calculus AB exam.</p>
<p>^^ At most colleges, yes, but some will still insist on you taking some math. (If you don’t want to take higher-level calc, I would highly recommend statistics. Easier and much more useful than calc.)</p>
<p>Marco117, may I ask which university you are referring to? In the past you mentioned that you were studying at FAMU and trying to transfer to FSU. Both FAMU and FSU are happy to let students take higher-level math courses. For example, FAMU says that students need 6 credits of math from a list of approved courses. That list includes Liberal Arts Math I + II, but it also has several calculus options and statistics.</p>
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<p>At a school where the standard freshman math is something other than Calculus (in the US) they will probably give you some sort of math placement exam. Different schools will have different policies on what you need to get on that to pass out of any math, or what math classes you will need to take. It is completely dependent on the school. </p>
<p>Note, that if you see “College Algebra” that typically means the 2nd year of Algebra in a high school. At some schools I think this is called Algebra 2 or Algebra 3/4. It is not Algebra 1 or Algebra typically taken in middle school.</p>