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Anonymous wrote:You'll be competing with tens of thousands of students who took Calculus as freshman in high school...
Look for a local college
This is not true. There are not tens of thousands of kids taking calculus as freshman in high school. Please stop.
The original poster was questioning if they should take any calculus before leaving high school and is aiming for a top college.
The juxtaposition is stark...there certainly are thousands of freshmen in high school taking calculus, with close to a 1,000 in the DMV area. This person would be graduating without even taking it. Which applicant would you rather be? Of course they don't "need" to take it. But it certainly isn't going to help them.
1. Show me a single piece of verifiable data supporting the idea that “close to 1,000” freshman in the DMV are taking calculus.
2. This has nothing to do with what type of school OP’s kid wants to go to. It has only to do with you pulling “stats” out of your ass.
NP. There were 300K+ AP Calc AB and Calc BC tests that were taken in 2024. You can review and factcheck to whatever level you need to convince yourself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Calculus
1K may be a made up statistic but it's probably a massive undercount.
The most advanced students in America are geographically clustered and DMV is one such area.
Well, to start, you misread the table. 251k students took AP Calc exams in 2024. Your assumption that 1000 of them must have been freshman in the DMV remains ungrounded in... anything.
I said I was a new poster, not the person who made up the 1K statistic. But why would you think there would be a small number of calculus students in the DMV based on population, local educational attainment, how highly the school districts are ranked nationally, etc? Also the SAT National Merit Finalist index threshold are very high in Maryland at least. Much higher than in flyover country. That speaks to a high level of math training among at least that part of the student body.
I did some napkin math that suggests that there should be 6,000+ calculus students in the DC MSA if each AP Calc test represents one student and the share of DMV test takers is proportional to the DC MSA as a % of total pop.
Feel free to do your own math.
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