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 First-Year Students
- 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 take the mandatory Placement Exam.
How to Prepare for the Math Placement Exam.
WARNING! If you do not bring your required review work, you will not be allowed to take the exam that day. NO EXCEPTIONS! Instead, you will have to reschedule your placement exam for another day.
WARNING! You MUST pass the exam to stay registered for the course. Your exam results will be discussed with you at orientation. Your registration will be confirmed or changed after you get your placement exam results. - 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)
- Taken a SASC Math Course Before?
If yes, your placement is based on your grade in the SASC Math course you previously took. Contact us if you are unsure of this placement.
If no, continue to step 2.
- Placement Conversation. Contact us to set up a time for a Placement Conversation with a math director (this may be in person or over the phone). One of the math directors 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 will schedule a time to take the placement exam and come to the scheduled exam with the required review work.
Click here for how to Prepare for the Math Placement Exam.
WARNING! If you do not bring your required review work, you will not be allowed to take the exam that day. NO EXCEPTIONS! Instead, you will have to reschedule your placement exam for another day.
WARNING! You MUST pass the exam to stay registered for the course. Your exam results will be discussed with you within a few days of taking the placement exam. - Confirmed Registration. Your final course placement will be based on the Placement Conversation and the results of the Placement Exam. This will be emailed to you.
- Last Step for Non-McNeill Students Only. 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 they are in the McNeill math course. Be sure to put the McNeill Math course in your shopping cart so you have all of the important course information.
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.