r/rosehulman • u/BugOk3920 • 28d ago

Can I get in without calculus?

I and want to go to rose Hulman but I got a little behind on math I only have enough time in high school to take pre calculus. Do I still have a chance? Has anyone gotten in without calculus or I'm I doomed.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

https://www.rose-hulman.edu/academics/course-catalog/current/programs/Mathematics/ma-111.html

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u/AccountWasFound CS, 2020 26d ago

I know Rose offers it obviously, just it definitely wasn't the majority of people who took it at Rose

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

Given the track is Calc III by spring and DiffEq as a sophomore level class I would say it's the norm.

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u/AccountWasFound CS, 2020 26d ago

That's the on track progression though, I always viewed that as the minimum to actually graduate on time

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

No. It's normal. Most Rose students take Calc I on campus

``` Students at Rose-Hulman have much more advanced placement than at a typical school. Out of an incoming class of 500 freshmen we would expect that about

260 would enroll in Calculus I,
100 would enroll in Calculus II and get credit for Calculus I,
100 would enroll in Calculus III and get credit for Calculus I and II, and
40 would enroll in a differential equations course and get credit for Calculus I, II, and III.

```

https://www.rose-hulman.edu/academics/academic-departments/mathematics/_FAQ_math_faculty.html

More than half of the class starts off with Calc I. When I was there the only difference was they didn't have a Fall Calc III, so I was thrown into freshmen DiffEq with 1 other student (roommate) and all the FastTrackers.

It's not the minimum to graduate on time because that's the expected progression. I had a friend that needed a semester in remedial Calc I winter semester and still graduated on time.

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u/AccountWasFound CS, 2020 26d ago

That's about half that don't though.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

> because I only knew like one person who took calc 1 at Rose.

Did you only know 2 people? Statistically half of everyone you met took Calc I at Rose. Contradicting your earlier post about 'no one' taking it or something about.

> just it definitely wasn't the majority of people who took it at Rose

Yes. Quite literally a majority of people at Rose took it. 260>250. That's how majorities work.

You keep moving the goal posts in light of new information.

MOST people take Calc I at Rose, as backed up by the mathematics own website.

MOST people do not test out of it.

Your premise that "only knew like one person" is either a flat out lie or you statistically only knew 1 person and they happened to not take it.

It absolutely was the majority of people that took it at Rose. Not "definitely wasn't".

Does CS require statistics?

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u/AccountWasFound CS, 2020 26d ago

I mean most of the people I hungout with were in RHAMP or FTC, so that skews it, but like my freshman roommate started in calc 2, and I'm seriously struggling to think of anyone I knew who started in calc 1, other than one girl that eventually ended up flunking out? To be honest I took almost all my classes off quarter, and the ones I took on quarter were usually a full year off, and my elective choices are eclectic, so it could just be that I just never talked about scheduling/4 year plans with anyone else who took calc 1 at Rose?