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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP Calc AB as junior
AP Calc BC as senior 
Princeton as CS major [/quote]

This is atrocious. Must be an athlete (or fake)[/quote]

Why? What comes after calc in high school these days? When I graduated, it was the highest level.[/quote]

At my DC well known west coast private school the highest math offered is BC Calculus which is taken after honors pre calculus in senior year which is not an easy class at their school. (Go to either AB Calc or BC Calc - don’t take both during HS) They do NOT let the kids advance. The only differentiation is honors path starting in middle school and some are only taking Algebra 1 in 9th grade. Every year at least 5% of the class goes on to HYPSM and much more to T20.

As others suggest, colleges probably evaluate students within the context of their school and offerings. [/quote]

Actually plenty of kids do take both AB and BC.  Take AB first, then BC the next year.  Given that BC is a full year of college calculus (not a single semester course like most AP courses are), we've been in two districts that highly recommend you do AB and then BC (or reg calc then BC which is silly and pointless, might as well do AB then BC)[/quote]

None of what you said is universal to high school or colleges. You need to know the curriculum where you are and follow what you are advised to do.

Some high schools cover these courses in a semester, some in a year, some in three semesters (because they include things they deem necessary that are not in the AP curriculum). Some colleges teach the equivalent of BC in a year, others in  a semester, others in 8 or 10 weeks if they follow a quarter system (so you can take four full math courses in one year).[/quote]

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