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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of these super advanced MCPS kids do not impress admissions people. It is perfectly fine to take Calc as a senior. Once again it is the stupid DMV bias here. Get out of your bubble.[/quote]

Oh.  I must have missed the part where MCPS kids are banned from elite universities and don’t excel in NMSF and win national awards.[/quote]

Some kid who takes calculus in the womb in DMV is not seen as being any better than a kid who takes it as a senior, all other things being equal. Yet so many people here get their panties in a bunch because their kids aren't taking calc and physics and whatever soon enough. Doesn't matter.

Stuy, Bronx Science, Dalton, Trinity, Horace Mann, Scarsdale, Millburn kids don't do any of this.[/quote]

Wrong.  Stuyvesant High School's math follows a sequence of Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalculus, and then Calculus AB or BC but it also offers advanced courses like Multi-variable Calculus and Differential Equations, AP Statistics, and electives for students who complete the core sequence early. That means kids are at the minimum taking algebra in middle school.  Other kids will be more advanced.

Dalton, Trinity, and Horace Mann are private schools for ultra wealthy New Yorkers. I don’t know their math curricula, but they don’t need to do advanced math because these kids  have the privilege of being legacy and donor admits because they’re rich and privileged.  Never heard of Scarsdale and Millburn but will take your word for it that they don’t push math education.[/quote]

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