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My thinking has changed on this after talking to a student who took differential equations or whatever the class is after Calculus B/C. Kid was at a competitive engineering program and came in w/ tons of AP credits overall, but the program required retaking that class for anyone who took it as a high school class. All to say, it probably helped with admission but that’s probably it. [/quote]

It probably also helped the student have a good grade when retaking the course and exit the course with a more solid understanding of the material.

Imagine learning it de novo in a class where many of the students already have studied the subject AND where the course grades are plotted on a curve. The ones who took it before are likely to be at the top of the curve and the ones who have not seen it before at the bottom. [/quote]

When you apply to college your school sends a sheet to the university so that they understand the curriculum, rigor, etc at the high school. Very often  colleges/universities are familiar with high schools so don’t need this detail, but many do so they send it to all. If the highest level of math available on campus is AP Calc BC and your kid took it, did well, has been on the honors track, it doesn’t matter if they started with Geometry in 9th grade. You are compared to others in your school.

The above describes DD. She now attends a favorite DCUM school, is a STEM major, and took ML and beyond in college. She had a solid foundation from HS and did well. She got into 3 of 4 “top” schools she applied to.

I’ll concede that the accelerated math does help with HS magnet admissions, but the myth that you need to be crazy accelerated in HS to get into top colleges is simply not true—or at least not true across the board[/quote]

How odd. Quoted post said zero about admissions and was from a new poster. It is as if person just did not bother to read the quoted post...[/quote]

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