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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any chance they’ll start rescinding like UC Davis did when they over enrolled a couple years ago? [/quote]
I sure wouldn’t want my kid getting a C or 2 or worse second semester. Or any sort of “rescindable” trouble. Those acceptances do have contingencies. [/quote]

What I find shocking is how many kids that get accepted to Tech have never even had pre-calc.  I mean this is a tech school and there are 18 years old going in without an ounce of even pre-calc?
So many on CC are talking about should they take pre-calc at CC this summer, what is math emporium like, can I start in Calc without pre-calc kinda thing.  I mean why are they accepting that caliber of kids there.  I know they have a high admission rate, but people always said it was high caliber kids applying. I am not buying that anymore [/quote]

I know! It's funny how the norms vary so much by immediate location.  My kid who is doing well in Calc his senior year in the context of taking the most rigorous courses in other areas, and has a 720 SAT score in math without prep, viewed himself as not a VT kind of kid because he's not "math-y" because other kids were more advanced in math (he was deciding between JMU and VT for his "safety" and this was his rationale).    Meanwhile in some other parts of Virginia, kids not even having taken pre-calc think they are good matches.  I know NOVA is a bubble, but I didn't realize how much of one--and I also didn't realize how much it limits our kids' perceptions of themselves.  My kid who could succeed in any reasonable engineering program with his abilities/background if he wanted --basically sees that as clearly not a real option.  It's not that I want him to be an engineer, but your immediate context shapes what you think you are good at, prepared for etc and I think being around such high achieving norms can tilt your conceptions and in strange ways limits your perceptions of opportunities.[/quote]

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