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

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard. Pre-algebra.

Legacy?

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UMD for Physics. Multi-variable calculs.

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

Hook?

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Wow, FCPS kids are so lucky. I am from another district and I had to self-study for AP Statistics and AP Calc AB was the highest level offered, and a lot of kids didn't pass the exam.

Majored in Stats in college.

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PP here. Stats major at HYP.

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Multivar calc & linear algebra
Haverford (interested in CS)

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Davidson College -- AP Calc BC

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sure... grade inflation all they way through to Calculus BC, MVC, LA, etc. And endless, endless retakes

Speaks to the fact that the applicant really likes math and is willing to put in extra effort to learn.

Exactly the sort of student I love

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Calc BC with 5s in 10th grade. AP stats with 5 in 11th along with Linear Algebra. MVC/Vector Calculus in 12th. Heading to UMd. Waitlist at Ivy / T10.

OP - you are trying to make sense of something that makes no sense. Let your kid take what they feel comfortable with.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard. Pre-algebra.

Legacy?

Nope, lying LMAO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Hook?

Nope. Just got lucky I guess? Southeast Asian (not Indian)

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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.

No. Most high schools don't offer linear. If anything the admissions officer will check the highest level math classes offered and the applicant's high school and whether or not the applicant took said classes

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you whose children went beyond BC Calculus, where did they take these courses if they are not offered at the school? My DC's school tops out with BC and AP Statistics. Also, did your children take any math courses over the Summers?

My kid was in mcps stem magnet. He took the highest math, science, comp sci, language and humanities he could at HS like plenty of his peers. He filled up his schedule with as many electives as he could at school because they were really good offerings and he had taken ap calc bc as a sophomore. CS and Physics at UMD. Very happy at UMD. Lots of opportunities and internships.

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BC Calc, Notre Dame

Humanities Major

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V Tech- math/physics major

Junior year AP Calc AB
Senior year AP Calc BC, AP Stats, AP Physics C mech and electricity