Have you tried contacting the professor in charge of the Calc/Pre-calc course? Depending on your school they may be able to let you into the class without the prereqs. Just send him an email explaining what you've just said and offer to demonstrate you're ready for the class.

You should contact your advisor and/or the dean of students. They should be able to sort this all out for you.

By the way, this isn't really math related.

I think it's math related enough to warrant the third thread on one of the slowest moving boards on 99chan.

No one really answered the survey portion of this thread however. What were you freshman math courses? Algebra, or something higher up on the math totem pole?

>>30

My freshman math courses were Calc II first semester and Discrete second semester.

My freshman math course was Calculus 3. I couldn't really find anything else that could be transferred after that :/

>>32
What.
Why were you in Calculus 3, your first year? Where did you take Calculus 1 and 2?

>>33

Not >>32 but at my high school we had Calc II and you could take classes at the local university if you needed.

>>27
same thing happened to me, I took mathematics all the way to calc 1 in HS, but since I wasn't in AP I didn't get credit for those classes towards college. I did really good in them, and taking them again in college made them an easy A and made my transcript look good with As in all math courses up to calc 3. College calculus was nonetheless more technical and more in depth than high school.

>>35
Makes me feel better about my situation. Might as well re-take them. I'd hate to have trouble in higher up math courses because I couldn't remember something easy.

I agree that you should talk to professors/deans and see if there is a way you can test out of Algebra. Honestly, if you can do the standard manipulations (rearrange equations, simplify, factor, etc.) you shouldn't have a problem skipping it.

As for my intro college courses, I did Calc I and II in high school and then a Calc I through III summer program, so I started with differential equations. The review of calc was nice since my high school class was my junior year, but I still don't think it's worth it to retake a class during the school year. There are so many classes I want to take, in and out of my major, that I can't imagine wanting to waste credits on something I already know.

>>48
I'm a math major and I failed calc 2 and I'm doing just fine in my other math classes.
Its sort of unfair that they expect you to do calc without analysis first.

Turns out the class I was in was Algebra 1314 for business/liberal arts majors. Taking this class wouldn't allow me to move on to the STEM pre-calc/Calculus courses. There was an opening in a late starting shortened semester 1414 algebra class that was intended for STEM majors.
Needless to say the professor and students in this class are much more intelligent.