Credit for ALEKS Corp (McGraw Hill) Online courses in College Algebra & Statistics

[cookderosa]

I have a question regarding the ALEKS College Algebra program, and would be grateful if anyone could answer it for me:

I need statistics and research design in order to do lab courses at my university, but in order to enroll in stats and research design, I need to have a credit in college algebra. I thought I'd try to CLEP out of it before the start of the spring semester, but, upon finding this discussion thread, I thought I'd give ALEKS a try. Well, I tried to register for college algebra, but found that that they only offer it with Trigonometry, which I'd rather avoid if possible. I called them, and was transferred to a supervisor, who was rather surprised to see that there was no option for doing College Algebra by itself. He has said he will contact me as soon as he finds out more.

So, my question is: Do you think it is worth while for me to sign up for the algebra + trig course now and just dive in head first, or should I wait and see what happens with the supervisor? Bear in mind that I've done no college math, and have been out of school for about 6 years. I did, however, recently do the GRE, and did well on the quantitative (math) section (770/800). What do you guys think? Is the trig tough? :confused:

thanks a lot for any replies

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??? odd. college algebra without trig is course number 0003. Where are you looking? Go into the individual tab (not higher ed) and it is all the way down into the adult learner area.