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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's totally fine to do AB+BC, that's the most common path for advanced math students at DS's HS and I know several admitted UVA and VT for engineering last year. DS also did that and is at VT in a math-heavy major. IMO, it's better to do that than jump to BC. No reason to rush through calculus vs. learning it at a slower and more thorough pace. [/quote]

And you want your engineers and physicists to be fluent in math.  My kid (a billion APs, high GPA, 1550+ SAT) is going into a stem field and I insisted she take AB and then BC.  I wasn’t convinced that pre-calc was firm because of COVID even though she did fine in the class. I thought that the fundamentals need to be strong so she can really use math as a tool well into the future.  Oh and I taught math heavy grad classes as a prof.  It’s better that kids really understand this stuff rather than trying to show off to some college counselor. [/quote]

This is my mindset too, but is it the mindset of people in college admissions at non-MIT/Ivy type schools?[/quote]

AD will tell you they want to see calculus. The CS department will tell you they want them to retake whatever calc classes they took in high school anyway. They want students with an aptitude for math, not the the ones who took the most math classes at the youngest age.[/quote]

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