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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Profs want students back to being strong in the basics. 
The average STEM student in Calc Ab and BC should be repeating calc 2 in college. They skip along to linear or calc 3 and usually have poorer math skills than peers who repeated or began the calc sequence in college.

The colleges won’t think you’re “doing too much,” but your kid won’t be seen as any different than someone with Calc Ab As a senior or Bc if in stem. The really good math students have already blown your kid out of the water- they have the math Olympiad awards and college math work to prove it.[/quote]

Exactly!

My advanced kid took Precalc in 10th, AP Calc AB in 11th and BC in 12th (along with AP stats).  Our school requires you to take AB then BC (and teaches it accordingly, so BC reviews the AB portion in 3 weeks or so).  They got 5s easily on both Calc Tests.  So they took the college credit (T40 school, engineering major) and got As in all their math classes at University.  
But had they gotten only 4s, I would have encouraged them to retake calc 2 in college to build the foundation.

it's much like in HS (for kids not advanced) where the explain, if you dont' get a B or better in Alg 1, you really need to retake Alg 1 over the summer to build the foundations for math.  Because HS chem requires it, most HS science does and the rest of math will be challenging without a strong foundation.

Same goes for advanced kids.  Sometimes you can get too advanced, skip material and not really learn it.  If you plan to use it (as in engineering/Math/Physics) you need to step back and really know the material.

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