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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In another thread (and here) people said strong math students don't do that sequence. They cut out Calc AB. And colleges would look at that sequence as weak and not rigorous. [/quote]

Like most course selection questions a lot of it comes down to what is offered and typical at your particular school. I was surprised when the math teacher said DS (a very strong math student, now majoring in data science) should do the AB-BC sequence since I though BC was an alternative to AB but at our school they recommend doing both and teach it that way for students ready to take calculus in junior year. Only a handful of students each year skip AB.

I don't know that skipping it and doing BC in 11th just to be able to take linear algebra/multivariable calc would have benefited DS since his college policy was to not give credit for Calc 2 regardless of AP score. They wanted them to take it on campus, followed by linear/multivariable. I'm glad he got a thorough grounding in calculus. He's gotten As in all his college math classes so far and was glad that his first semester Calc 2 was not the 1st time he was seeing it.[/quote]

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