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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure why I am jumping into this crazy thread but I don't understand the OP's original question.

I have no idea if Blair's magnet classes are college level or not. My guess is that some are and some aren't.
Even then, I think OP is missing the forest for the trees. Unless her child goes to a small isolated liberal arts college that is not known for a strong math dept., there is no way they would run out of options for advanced classes. Even if his Blair classes are approaching college level material, it may still be wise to repeat some of the more esoteric classes that require a lot of abstract thinking. The Blair content may be similar to college but the Blair HS teacher is not a college professor and the students at Blair are not mature college students so class discussion, projects, and tangents that the class may veer off into will be quite different. Even if you start running out of classes, you have so many options to address that - independent study, graduate level classes where available, online math classes through college consortium, classes at other colleges and universities that are nearby, junior year abroad and take math in Europe or somewhere else or take a break from math, take Comp Sci and/or Engineering classes, double major in something else like Physics or a foreign language, the possibilities are endless. My advice to OP is to think creatively and don't pigeonhole your kid into a small box. Even if your child wants to go on to do a math PhD which he really cannot know right now and may well be mistaken if he is thinking in HS that he wants to do it, some of the most successful researchers are the ones who have strong backgrounds in more than one field and do multidisciplinary research where they apply their math expertise to Biology or Physics or Linguistics.

This post makes sense to me
Blair parent

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