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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish it didn’t matter, but I have toured over 15 colleges with my junior, from JMU to Tufts, and almost everywhere [b]has mentioned wanting to see calculus in high school[/b]. [b]Most engineering programs require it[/b]. And every admissions director has said that your course load is more important than everything else.

As a non- math person who never went beyond trig in high school myself,  I would love to agree with the posters that say it doesn’t matter for college admissions, but it’s simply not true. It won’t necessarily alter the course of your career plans, but it most definitely alters the colleges and programs you have access to. [/quote]

That might be true if you are going into Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil, and Computer ENGINEERING majors.  Those majors require calculus as the foundation before you can take other courses like physics, thermo dynamics and electro magnetic field.  However, you do NOT need calculus to major in Computer Sciences or Information Technology.

I don't know if any of those admission directors actually have "real" jobs,  I can say for certain that I am a programmer (Java, Python, .dot net) and I do not need calculus to do my daily routine job.  Last time I check, Computer Science major is also STEM, isn't it?[/quote]

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