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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+100. I'm not sure if standards are falling at JR, but they are at Walls for two key reasons. As we know, students who wouldn't have been admitted pre-Covid are getting in, particularly kids who don't work at grade level for math, and the post pandemic principal is an empty suit. She doesn't hold her teachers accountable like the previous head did.

Walls parents don't  move. They hang around supplementing or pretending that the program is on a par with strong suburban programs. With Affirmative Action supposedly gone in college admissions, Walls is coming under new pressure to better prepare low and moderate minority students for college rigor. They're just not up to the challenge. [/quote]
College admissions are almost certainly going to lean on zip code in ways they haven’t before. That will make Walls a very good bet for admissions, if not preparation (which in my experience Walls students have done fine, though that may change and post COVID cohorts are worse across the board).

That being said, as a professor in a STEM field, I generally advise kids to retake whatever higher level math they took in high school at the honors level in college (eg, if you took AB or BC, retake the equivalent course in college). High school math really skimps on the foundational proof skills that you need to do things like PDEs (the AP tests really don’t incentivize it). Students are rarely prepared and rarely endogenously equipped to handle the second year courses unless they’ve taken a proof course in high school. It’s no fault of their own, it’s just not something American high schools- even great ones- have an incentive to provide. [/quote]

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