05-27-2017, 05:31 AM
Ideas Wrote:Thanks for this info.I'm just going to paste what I wrote in a different thread:
Do you know if the Intro Differential course will go into the "B. Theory" part of the ASNSM? Or either of the others? A bunch of us were trying to find a third course that would (along with Calc II and Statistics). For the requirement where they say it can be Calc III (Multivariate Calculus), Linear Algebra (Calculus Based), Discrete Math, Probability, Matrix Algebra, Number Theory. It seems like they might accept other types of courses.
Quote:Yes - differential equations is traditionally the 4th course of the calculus sequence. In brick & mortar schools, I've seen it broken up into Intro/ODE and a separate PDE class (both 3-4 credit). It's novel that one intro class from BU is broken into 3, for 9 credits. (Still trying to wrap my head around this, LOL. But hey, if they wanna hand out 9 math credits like candy, who's to stop them?)
Just be aware that the content still amounts to that one BU intro class in total, in case an interviewer who *does* know math inside/out starts grilling you on advanced DiffEs that 9cr on a transcript generally would indicate.