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Con: This is a new AP exam, so college admissions officers might not be comfortable with it yet, and teachers might not know how to teach it well. When teachers are not trained well in teaching AP courses, students don't fare as well on the exam.

Pro: the College Board is a respected entity with a scoring system that allows the comparison of students nationwide. An AP class will usually weigh more seriously than an Honors class from Podunk high school. I think they'll just count it as just another of the "easy" APs: like AP Psychology, AP Human Geo, things like that.

Conclusion: if your kid is on track to do AP Calc BC or beyond, and there's a chance they'll have a dozen APs by the end of 12th grade... I don't think AP Pre-calc is necessary. But if you want the GPA boost, sure. If your kid won't have that many APs, I think it's a question of weighing the risk of having an inexperienced teacher compared to the GPA boost.

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There seems to be at an anti-AP-precalc troll on this thread.[/quote]

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