How to Get Into a McNeill Math Course
Students cannot enroll in a McNeill Math course on their own, they must contact the department. As controlled enrollment courses, we do not have call numbers.
Incoming Freshman
- Initial Temporary Placement. Your initial placement is based on your high school transcripts submitted through your CU application. McNeill will contact you to let you know in what course you are temporarily placed.
- Placement Exam. At orientation you will bring your review work and take the mandatory Placement Exam. You MUST pass the exam to stay registered for the course. You MUST bring your review work in order to take the exam. Placement exams will be graded and exam results shared with the student. The student will then have their registration confirmed or changed. See Preparing for the Math Placement Exam for how to prepare for the exam.
- Confirmed Registration. Your final math course placement will be based on the results of the exam and high school transcripts. You will have this information before orientation is over.
Continuing Students (You must follow all of these steps in order)
- Placement Conversation. Contact Ann Scarritt at 303-492-1407, ann.scarritt@colorado.edu or Delsie Khadem-Ghaeini at 303-492-1407, delsie@colorado.edu to set up a time for a Placement Conversation with a math director (this may be in person or over the phone). The director will ask questions regarding previous math courses taken including grades, location, when math courses were taken, and major/career plans to make an appropriate math placement.
- Initial Temporary Registration. After the Placement Conversation, you will be temporarily registered for a course. At this time, you will schedule a time to take the mandatory Placement Exam.
- Placement Exam. You MUST pass the exam to stay registered for the course. You MUST bring your review work in order to take the exam. Placement exams will be graded and exam results shared with the student. The student will then have their registration confirmed or changed. See Preparing for the Math Placement Exam for how to prepare for the exam.
- Confirmed Registration. Your final course placement will be based on the Placement Conversation and the results of the Placement Exam.
- Last step for non-McNeill/AEP Students. As a non-McNeill/AEP student, you will be put on an internal waitlist until all McNeill/AEP students have registered for courses through the first week of classes. Because the list is internal, you will not see the course on your official schedule. For this reason, you must sign up for a back-up course in the case that you are unable to get into the McNeill math course. You must attend both the McNeill math course for which you are waitlisted and the back-up course until you are given official notice that you are in the McNeill math course.
Preparing for the Math Placement Exam
Note: Math Placement Exam Preparation takes 3-10 hours and you are required to bring your work to the Placement Exam. Plan ahead. No exceptions will be made for being unprepared.