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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a sad statement of the world today (I'm not blaming you - I feel awful for you). One bad grade should not ruin a kid. I'm pretty sure I had multiple final grades of B or so (but still finished in the top few % of my class at a good public HS) and got into multiple Ivy+ schools in the 90s. A's weren't handed out like candy and any SAT score over 1400 was great. The process is just so awful. But I don't know the answer.[/quote]

This isn't the 90s.

In the era of grade inflation, a C+ might as well be a D. Now, if the OP isn't obsessed with T10 schools like most DCUMers and puts a reasonable college list together, he/she will avoid some admissions pain.[/quote]

Rigorous schools do not have grade inflation. [/quote]

A C+ at a "rigorous " school still sucks, so there's that.[/quote]

Well, most kids don’t make it past calc BC either, and especially not an a junior.  If he did well though BC I think he is fine [/quote]

The kids at our school admitted to the highest ranked colleges did not take the hardest math classes offered. I don't know where people got the idea that this was needed. It has never been the case at our high school.[/quote]

Exactly. Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Hopkins do not care about calculus. Take Algebra I, II, Geo/trig. Take precalculus as a senior. That checks the most rigorous box so no need for further.  [/quote]
That would be a year behind the standard math progression at DC’s private school, and my understanding of most private schools in the DMV. Stand is to have geometry in 9, algebra 2 (with or without trig) in 10, precalc in 11, and some level of Calc in 12. Yes, there is a track a year behind that many kids are on, but it’s essentially remedial and would not “check the most rigorous box.” And of course there are honors/AP sections of the standard progression, and there are also kids a year or two advanced who take Calc in 11th or even 10th and then take a year or two of post-Calc math.

I was assuming the “advanced calculus” that OP mentions was an honors non-AP class or the equivalent of an AP class in a school that doesn’t offer APs, but others seem to think it’s actually post-AP. It would be helpful for OP to explain what it actually is. [/quote]

And, depending on the child and track that’s very behind public.  I find it strange too privates water things down so much especially when they encourage redshirting.  Between older kids and getting the brightest they all should be able to handle more. [/quote]

Very behind public? lol

Public school kids can take whatever they want and get at least a B+ as long as they turned in hw on time.  The whatever advanced courses offered there are too navigational to mean anything.  [/quote]

You clearly have no clue, a private school parent justifying paying a ton of money for a watered down curriculum with held back kids.  [/quote]

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