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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would look hard at the upper-level courses available at the two schools.  St. Anselm's has AP Computer Science, AP Calc BC, and several other upper-level STEM courses.  It's a little hard to tell from Latin's web site, but it doesn't look like those options are available.  If you have a STEM kid, you definitely will want him to take AP Calculus BC in high school to make him competitive for admission to engineering programs.  I would really drill down into the curriculum to see what will be available.

FWIW, your son sounds like an Abbey boy.  :)[/quote]

Within public and charter options, the only schools currently offering Calc BC are Wilson, SWW (some years it is only Calc AB) and Basis DC.

Latin's science and math courses are more limited --  see http://latinpcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Curriculum-guide-combo.pdf --

Currently, Latin seniors can take AP Biology or AP Environmental Science (no AP Physics or AP Chem)

RE math: In grades 5 and 6, students are grouped according to their previous expertise and facility with basic operations; in grades 7- 10, depending on their comfort with numeric operations, students either continue their work on basic math or begin their high school work on Algebra I, II, and Geometry. For some advanced 10th grade students, Pre-Calculus is an option in the high school. High-school students can also elect to take Statistics, AP Calculus or AP Statistics in order to fulfill their four-year high-school math requirement. [/quote]

Latin does have AP Calc BC as an offering, as well as AP Computer Science Principles which I think is new this year.[/quote]

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