[Junior]

You know, I never even took trigonometry in high school (I was notoriously arithmephobic at the time). In college I only took the math courses required for a liberal arts degress (and none of those courses included trigonometry). I really didn't get into such things until I started playing "hard" science fiction wargames with their vector-based movement mechanics.

In other words, I don't believe trigonometry is a prerequisite for college.

[VadeRetro]

I got in without calculus, although like MacD I had "passed" trig. Caveat for the youngsters: I haven't tried to get into college for 36 years. Things change.

[longshadow]

In other words, I don't believe trigonometry is a prerequisite for college.

It depends on what you want to major in...... trig is not very important to majors like Literature, Psychology, Foreign Languages, and so forth. But if you intend to major in ANY technical field, whether Engineering, pure science, or Mathematics, you are dead meat without it. In fact, I can tell horror stories about what happens to students who enter an Engineering & Science track in college without Calculus. Suffice to say you can't do Calculus without knowing some trig, and you can't do freshman Physics without Calculus.

As further evidence of the importance of trig to a technical major, I offer you the MIT cheerleader's favorite chant:

"Secant! Tangent! Cosine! Sine!
Three point one four, one five nine!"

I rest my case....

;-)