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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few people here are horrifically wrong. It’s best to take some calculus by graduation, but [b]no college[/b] is seriously requiring Calc 3 (most high schools have very poor, non-proof based calc classes, so you’ll have to retake anyway in college). Math majors will be expected some BC calc, but I have math major friends from prep schools who only did Calc 1 or no Calc. Colleges can handle a person with limited math experience and work them through a math major, but you do need rigor throughout their four years.[/quote]

There are exceptions. MIT, Cal Tech. for given majors.[/quote]
No it doesn't. My friend is currently at Caltech and only took AB...Hell, Harvey Mudd has one of the most rigorous stem admissions processes and it only requires a 
"year of calculus" to begin its core. STEM colleges have students who have never even heard of a partial derivative.[/quote]

Your friend is in college? 
How old are you?

Did your friend's school offer a higher class? Did your friend to other non-calculus advanced math in school or EC? Or post-AP in any science? (Science Bowl, Olympiads, FIRST)

Is your friend's background and interest in mathematical science, or in lab/field engineering?

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Current student, come to the thread sometimes because of how often parents are flat out wrong about mine and my friends colleges. Friend is a math major from IMSA- he had options way beyond calc 3, but saw no reason to rush and is doing fine at Caltech. Didn’t compete in math ECs at all, he had really interesting extracurriculars as an archivist and was a humanities buff, very strange admit to Caltech but they took him. I also didn’t have stem ECs as a math admit. Your extracurriculars just need to indicate you have passion for something and STEM is pretty applicable to almost anything.[/quote]

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