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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Or, look at it this way. Right now your child is on track to take AP Calculus in 11th grade and to need to take yet another math course to graduate. What actual harm is done if they take Calculus as a senior instead? [/quote] Since this question has come up repeatedly. Some of us are thinking ahead. Admission to competitive STEM majors, in particular CS, is separate from admission to an undergrad institution as a whole. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough CS PhDs who are qualified and want to be academics. So the limited spots in, for example, the EECS major at Cal will go to kids who have already taken Linear algebra. It’s not about beating another kid. It’s about not letting an Education admistrator decide which doors to close to a 9 year old that they’ve never met.[/quote] It depends on what you consider stem. I think parents over inflate the importance of STEM. You can do just fine as long as you have calculus. [/quote]
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