Computing is a vital part of Grinnell's academic environment. At Grinnell, students and faculty can access the World Wide Web and the library card catalog from workstations located in residence halls, classroom buildings, laboratories, and offices. Since each incoming student has a special background, any final decision concerning placement in courses may involve discussion among the student, his or her advisor, and the mathematics and computer science faculty. Upon arrival on campus, the student reviews this preliminary placement with his or her advisor. If the transcript is incomplete, if the student believes another placement might be more appropriate, or even if the student feels slightly nervous about the placement, then the student may talk with a member of the mathematics and computer science department for a detailed discussion of placement.
Final placement comes from the consensus reached based on discussions with a student's advisor.
Specific Placement Information Click here for your tentative placment , based on your test scores and transcript. This course usually is taken by students having a solid mathematics background through precalculus or trigonometry and by students with one semester of calculus in high school. Since Grinnell's Calculus II covers multivariable calculus, most of the material in Math 133 will be new to students with calculus in high school. Students with particularly strong backgrounds start in Math 215, Linear Algebra. Students with weaker backgrounds start in Math 123, Functions and Differential Calculus.