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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your replies. My questions are:

1) Are your kids not taking MV calculus - not an AP class?
2) What about double period AP classes - like chemistry and bio, in our kid's HS? Do they not eat up into other classes (e.g. you can only take 6 subjects rather than seven)
3) My kid wants to take AP drawing but it takes a long time to get there (4 years). Any advice?[/quote]
At DC's school, there were 8 courses every semester, so that definitely helps. You couldn't ever take less than 8. Classes were pretty well designed, so they wouldn't run into one another. [b]No One is taking MV calc, it's not offered-the school says when they did offer it, admissions departments gave them the eye brow and suggested slowing students down[/b]. Instead there's an occasional number theory class for seniors. Don't hasten the APs if it isn't necessary![/quote]

The high school is not up to date or not telling the truth. A large percentage of freshman at T10s and lower have taken MVC in high school. In Boston area, 2 private day schools and many boarding schools have a normal math track such that 1/4 of students take multivariable and another post AP math in senior year. [b]It is a standard path the kids get tracked into in 6th grade[/b]. It is not rare at all, and these high schools get an impressive amount into T20s. [/quote]

Yes, this is the Algebra 1 in 7th grade track. A lot of kids in MCPS are on this track, and there are kids going a year faster than that (Algerba 2 in 8th).[/quote]

In our area it is Algebra in 6th grade as the most advanced, yet the school still insists on mandatory separation of calc AB and BC . 25-30 students per year do Alg 1 in 6th which leads to BC in 11th and a combo course of multivariable and ordinary differential Eq in 12th. The next group of 35-40 does Alg 1 in 7th leading to BC in 12th. Those two tracks are over 50% of each grade level. Coincidentally 40-50% go to T30s[/quote]

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