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[quote=Anonymous]A couple of things from the viewpoint of a parent of two kids who got into AOS.

1) About 50% of the kids in the 9th grade at AOS have completed Algebra2/Trig. It never even occurred to us to have our kids that accelerated but some parents get it done somehow. I'm not sure what affect that has on getting in, but it has a hell of an effect on how kids do in 9th grade.

2) To wit: AOS Freshman Math is AOS Math analysis. And it is no joke. The teachers basically act as if everyone already knows the concepts from Alg2/Trig and if you don't you are expected to learn it on your own. The freshman course is basically a HS Junior level honors Math Analysis course with advanced statistics and curves of best fit among large data sets.

The bad news: If your son/daughter doesn't take Algebra2/Trig before enrolling, they will struggle mightily.

The good news: The reason AOS doesn't require geometry is that there are few concepts from Geometry that come into play on the AOS side. So a kid who takes Geometry (mine both did) has little advantage over the kid who just took Algebra 1 in 8th grade.

When my second child got accepted into AOS we made sure she took Alg2 in summer school and it made a huge difference.

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