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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What high school expects all kids to take geometry in 8th grade?  That seems unrealistic. [/quote]
Yeah, I think the schools have been misrepresented to OP. No HS expects all or even most kids to take geometry in 8th.

Our k-8 did offer geometry, and between a fifth and a third of the 8th graders took it in any given year (grade size averaging about 30-35 kids). It’s not *uncommon*, but it’s not the norm, either. [/quote]

OP. I didn’t say that the Hs expects all entering freshman to have taken geometry, but rather that those who enter having not taken it [b]have been warned by the college counseling office that their courseload won’t be categorized as highest possible rigor on their college applications.[/b] This matters at a private school since students are being compared by colleges to their classmates first and the rest of applicants after that.[/quote]

Who told you the bolded? At the "top" private schools -- GDS, Sidwell, cathedral schools, etc -- relatively few of their 8th graders take geometry. Yet their students do just fine in college admissions. I think you're overthinking the impact of this one thing.[/quote]

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