Math path for UVA/WM
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Anonymous
 Wow yourself.
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Anonymous
| My DS got into both W&M and UVA last year with AP Calc B/C in 12th grade, so Algebra in 8th grade. I would not over accelerate unless your child is very strong in math. My DS always said that the kids in the grade behind him in math made up the best students in the class, but also the worst. |
Anonymous
I mean, the clue is in the name. College of Arts AND SCIENCES. |
Anonymous
Interestingly, psychology, sociology, criminology, geology, etc. are all sciences. Did you know that? Physics is merely one class, and certainly not the end-all, be-all of the sciences. |
Anonymous
| ^^^ Meant to add, calculus is unnecessary for anyone not planning an engineering career. |
Anonymous
+1. Signing up for the fastest track doesn’t automatically mean you can do it. |
Anonymous
Psychology sociology and criminology are SOCIAL SCIENCES. Geol requires calculus. |
Anonymous
The point - once again - is that unless you’re going into a STEM field, you do not need calculus OR physics. |
Anonymous
| Deep learning requires vector calculus to understand how backpropagation works. So if you want to do CS you really need BC, so you can take linear algebra and vector calculus as a freshman and something like Stanford’s CS230 after that b |
Anonymous
| My kid is at W&M. Humanities kid. Took Calc A/B in 12th. |
Anonymous
And the secondary point is many kids do not know what there major will be when they graduate. Schools want to see calc, so you need calc. I am biased, of course, as a physicist. Understanding how the world works is a critical aspect of a liberal education. And physics with calculus is actually easy. Without it, it is hard. (With calc, you can derive almost all of the formulas for intro physics; without, memorization is required). But you can do whatever you want. See what happens. |
Anonymous
We have to take a lot of classes we don’t need. Do we really want people to be graduating from high school never having taken a math or science class? That said, calculus is the wrong one. We need to be taught statistics. It would make our society so much better. |
Anonymous
| My kids who got into UVA both are taking AP Calc AB this year as seniors. Neither had been in an advanced math class until Dual Enrollment Pre-Calc last year. Unfortunately Calc will go down as their only B ever but didn't seem to hinder them getting into UVA for a science major and a humanities major. |
Anonymous
These answers are meaningless on their own. People really should include whether their kid had a hook or came from a competitive HS. |
Anonymous
| No hook. OOS. Private school. |