Please post where your DC is headed and the highest math course taken in HS

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Poster above. Sorry to get off topic.
Highest math: Complex Analysis, Discrete, LA, MVC/DE (in math magnet)
Brown

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Anonymous wrote:Are elite colleges using an A in BC Calc junior year and A in Linear Algebra senior year as the current gate-keeping mechanism? Grades in those courses certainly have a much higher ability ceiling than the SAT.

grade inflation makes those grades almost meaningless. I would imagine colleges look at the AP exam scores, as well as grades.

In MCPS, a student can turn in assignments late and get full credit; do retakes and exam corrections to get a higher grade. I know some kids cheat on assignments and tests. Grades have almost become meaningless here.

Interesting. DC’s mcps math teacher only allows one retake per MP and it has to be on an exit ticket or quiz. The high point value tests cannot be retaken.

Same. (Poster above you). One retake for quiz, no retakes for exam.

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Even if I cheated, I would fail BC Calc. I would think a student would need a high level of quant ability to achieve a 95% average in the course as a 16 yo or 17 yo.

[Anonymous]

Senior Year - AP Calculus BC
UVA

[Anonymous]

Pre-calc.
Davidson

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Anonymous wrote:AP Precalc is new for 2023-24. That means that your kid will be able to take precalc as a junior and have a math AP score for college apps. Kids applying this year didn’t have that option.

My DC will be taking AP PreCalc as a sophomore next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster above. Sorry to get off topic.
Highest math: Complex Analysis, Discrete, LA, MVC/DE (in math magnet)
Brown

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What is your student going to study at Brown? Did they apply ED?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I get what you're trying to do here, but I don't think it really is all that helpful. There are so many things that go into a college's admission decision (ECs, recs, gpa, etc.) that is really is impossible to know how any one math class is going to affect your student's situation. There will be students who take an AB Calc/Stats math path who end up at Harvard and students who take MVC+ who end up at a much lower-ranked school.

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DD's HS college counselor pushed hard for DD to take AP Calc AB or BC expressly for the purpose of having either class on DD's transcript for college applications. The HS college counselor's previous job was in admissions at a highly selective university.

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Anonymous wrote:AP Calc AB as junior
AP Calc BC as senior
Princeton as CS major

Just curious what you think most helped your student get accepted to Princeton CS? That would be one of my DDs dream options

Not sure at all - DC took AP CS A as a senior and had no STEM EC. Mostly performing arts. Got into other ivies as well. Really wish I had an idea what helped most as younger sib would also love to go to Princeton.

Where are you located? I wonder if some of it is due to location? But, maybe the ECs, recs and essays were spectacular.

FCPS (Northern Virginia). High GPA, test scores, higher rigor in humanities vs STEM classes (go figure) I think recs were excellent? ECs were solid but nothing jaw dropping. DC was honest in essays / supplements and is a very strong writer.

[Anonymous]

UVA, Western PWC, Linear algebra

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I get what you're trying to do here, but I don't think it really is all that helpful. There are so many things that go into a college's admission decision (ECs, recs, gpa, etc.) that is really is impossible to know how any one math class is going to affect your student's situation. There will be students who take an AB Calc/Stats math path who end up at Harvard and students who take MVC+ who end up at a much lower-ranked school.

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DD's HS college counselor pushed hard for DD to take AP Calc AB or BC expressly for the purpose of having either class on DD's transcript for college applications. The HS college counselor's previous job was in admissions at a highly selective university.

You must be grateful that your high school has a college counselor.

[Anonymous]

Pre-calc MIT

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I get what you're trying to do here, but I don't think it really is all that helpful. There are so many things that go into a college's admission decision (ECs, recs, gpa, etc.) that is really is impossible to know how any one math class is going to affect your student's situation. There will be students who take an AB Calc/Stats math path who end up at Harvard and students who take MVC+ who end up at a much lower-ranked school.

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DD's HS college counselor pushed hard for DD to take AP Calc AB or BC expressly for the purpose of having either class on DD's transcript for college applications. The HS college counselor's previous job was in admissions at a highly selective university.

Did the counselor push for your DD to take it in junior year? or was senior year OK?

[Anonymous]

Harvard. Pre-algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pre-calc MIT

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