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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am reading the website under "what we look for" and it says "competitive students will often have earned credit beyond four years of math"  How does one take more than 4 years of math in high school?  Do they mean double up, which guessing no bc hard to take math levels concurrently since they build?  Do they mean one should count middle school math?  It also specifically says AP stats doesn't count as math.  Does my humanities kid have to take BC calc to be competitive?
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There are kids with all kinds of special circumstances.

But I think that, generally, Calculus AB is the minimum level of math these days for a kid at a T100 type of college who plans to major in STEM or other majors that involve math.

I think kids who want to be hot shot stem majors at a T30 need to go in with at least a 4 on Calculus BC. If all they have is a 4 on Calculus BC, they should go in with humility and start with Calculus AB, not even think they had a good Calculus AB class.

Nowadays, with all the access kids have to Khan Academy and the like, just having Calculus BC and nothing more advanced, even through self study, is a sign a kid isn’t really that interested in math and not all that well-prepared for doing math at a top-level.

Even in the 1980s, good math students from East Coast schools all had a minimum of Calculus. Kids who have the internet and can’t learn differential equations or liberal algebra on their own, for fun, are not going to have fun being math or physics majors at Wisconsin. [/quote]

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