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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assume JR is Jackson Reed. 
[b]What private is this that gatekeeps APs like this?[/b][/quote]
The Cathedral schools do.  [/quote]
Yes. My DD had a 95% in precalculus and they wouldn’t allow her to take AP Calculus because she wasn’t in the advanced precalculus class. Took “college prep” calculus instead. [/quote]

This is exactly the policy at my DD's school...there are three levels of precalc and the middle level and above can go into AP Calc AB and only the highest level can do BC.[/quote]

So for anyone who has had kids on the cusp and interested in taking more rigours classes but not allowed to, how did it shake out when time to apply to college? What do good grades in non weighted/rigorous classes get you? My child has goals and I do not want to have to forget those after freshman year. The school is not worth that.[/quote]
If your kid is on the bubble, one option is to take a class or get a tutor over the summer and submit results from that (or ask for a placement test) to bump up to the higher track. Also, if it’s just that your kid tracks into AB instead of BC, that’s not that big a deal.

If your kid has all A’s in standard-level classes, colleges are going to think they coasted and didn’t challenge themself enough. But if your kid is making a mix of A’s and B’s, and taking the highest level classes they can get into, that still looks good. It doesn’t help to take a higher level class than they can succeed in. [/quote]

Except now I hear from our private college counselor that the selective direct admit business programs will reject for only taking AB Calculus. They want BC Calculus for business schools. My DS’ school will not allow BC Calculus from AP Precalculus. You can only take AB Calculus and then BC Calculus the next year. This doesn’t help him since he is taking AP Precalculus in 11th. It is frustrating, because I heard in public school you have the choice of taking either AP Calculus class. (AB or BC). You don’t have to take AB before BC. They are not gatekept at all. [/quote]

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