Pre-calc/Trig
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Definitely if their school doesn’t offer higher math than that. If there was a more challenging option available it would be a little harder I think. |
Anonymous
Large SEC school, not a competitive school like business or engineering? Possibly. I’d say yes, but some of these schools are becoming increasingly popular. |
Anonymous
oh please. I went to a Title 1 HS that graduated 100 kids a year in the rural south. And I had access to AP Calc AB. Not 5 people took it. But it was offered. I don’t think a high school that didn’t even offer pre-Calc could maintain accreditation. |
Anonymous
School name? Answering this without that, is not helpful. I would think that very, very few top schools have students who did not take precalc. |
Anonymous
| To answer a pp, my child took precalc in Senior year in HS and is in a college ranked 50-100. |
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It depends on the major more than the overall college. The following majors require Calculus All Engineering majors All Business majors Arts and Sciences: Biology Chemistry and Biochemistry Computer Science Economics Environmental Science (not Environmental Studies) Mathematics Neuroscience Physics Public Health The following majors do not require Calculus Arts and Sciences: Anthropology Art and Art History Classics Communication English Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies History Liberal Studies Modern Languages Music Philosophy Political Science Psychology Religious Studies Sociology Theatre and Dance Women and Gender Studies |
Anonymous
It is a senior year class if a student is "on grade level". On grade level is algebra, geometry, algebra 2 and then pre-calc/trig in HS. We are all just so used to kids starting algebra in MS |
Anonymous
yes fairly certain all HS offer pre-calc/trig. But there definately are schools that do not offer calculus---many are rural smaller schools. |
Anonymous
+1 Lived in a town of 5K in midwest in ES/MS. Just checked---their HS tops out with Pre-calc (full year) and a semester of Stats. There are literally NO AP courses offered at all. I suspect this is typical for many smaller, rural school districts. Let me just say how happy I am my parents moved from that area---and now I know why I was so intensely bored in school there |
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| Don't be too psycho. I know it has been a few years, but I got into UVa OOS with no calculus and no science senior year (2 histories instead). Not everyone does STEM. |
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As a Literature major my daughter's T30 univ did not care about her lack of Calc. She did however do well in stats (Honors not AP). She did AP Lit/English, AP Govt, AP French, AP Spanish -- 5s on those.
Like daughter like mom. Despise STEM. |
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There are a good couple of hundred fcps kids who graduate having done Multivariable/Linear algebra in senior year. So their math progression is:
12: Multivariable Calc + Linear algebra 11: AP Calc AB/BC 10: Precalc/Trig or AP Calc AB 09: Algebra 2 https://insys.fcps.edu/CourseCatOnline/courselist/415/10/0/0/0/1 |
Anonymous
Good for them…doesn’t answer OP’s question at all. |
Anonymous
Yes, if you got in with that, it has indeed been a few years. I got into Duke, Davidson, Wake Forest, Emory, Vanderbilt and UNC— which was my safety school— out of a nothing public HS. It has indeed been a few years. |