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OP here—-[…]  What I don’t know is how much it would hurt her options if she applies without calculus.[/quote]

Many engineering schools will not consider any applicant without at least 1 year of HS calculus.  A few engineering schools will make a few exceptions, but there are very good academic reasons not to make such exceptions.  Story below explains why.

In my Engineering School, at the start of the first day of “Calculus 1 for Engineers”, which covered Differential Calculus, the professor asked how many students had not had a full year of high school calculus.  Then, 3 of the 45 students raised their hands.  He told them they could get through the course, but that they would need to work much harder than other students and they should plan to come to his office hours when they got stuck.

All 3 students struggled, as the university course pacing for both Calc 1 & Calc 2 (differential & integral) assumed that all students already had studied/learned Calculus in HS.  One of those 3 graduated in 4 years with a BS Engineering, after camping out at office hours, but not with the best GPA.  One student transferred after 2nd semester to the liberal arts school of the same university.  One student just disappeared after 2nd year of Engineering School, probably failed out or transferred elsewhere.

Would-be students in Engineering really need at least 1 year of HS Calculus to have a good chance at (1) getting accepted in Engineering, but more importantly (2) graduating with an engineering degree.[/quote]

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