Bad for students, who apply for CS or engineering, to take AP Calc AB and then BC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC did AB as a junior and BC as a senior. Later he won the Fields Medal and Nobel Prize. Taking AB didn’t hurt him one bit, it was a good foundation.

To add to this, while most students taking AB follow the regular curriculum, not at my kids school! They compact in one year AB, BC and CD. In the second year they don’t repeat anything, just go really deep into multivariable, linear equations, differential algebra. In college there were no math classes left to take so he majored in communications, definitely at HYPSM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If AP Calculus AB is a prerequisite for BC, that seems to be unfair for middle school students that have access to accelerated math only through Algebra 1. In high school they could only advance to Calculus AB.

In our MD district, the advanced math kids take Algebra I in 8th grade. DC's high school then had them double up in 10th with Algebra 2 (full year), trig (half yr), & stats (half yr). Then took AB in 11th and BC in 12th. They weren't allowed to take BC without AB first.

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