Reply to Compacted Math- FYI

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "Compacted Math- FYI"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][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]

Great info about Cal. But at UC Berkeley,  one can skip 1st year Math (not 1 semester) if he/she got a 5 in AP Calculus BC. There is no way one can skip Multivariable Calculus and/or Linear Algebra by saying "I took Linear Algebra in HS or a class in U Md".  If one skip both 1st and 2nd years of Math and march on to Discrete Math (CS70) as a first math class in college, be prepare to be surprised. Do people really believe that Calculus classes in U MD are comparable to the Calculus classes in UC Berkeley/MIT/ Cal Tech?[/quote]

You don’t understand. You apply TO THE MAJOR as a high school senior (see https://eecs.berkeley.edu/academics/undergraduate/eecs-bs).

So you greatly benefit from demonstrated ability to pursue math at a high level, in courses taken at the HS level.

For those who will respond that this is just one institution, think about how the landscape for admissions generally has changed in the last 10
years. For those who will respond that this is just one profession, consider what’s happened in Econ PhD program admission. The most important grade on your undergrad transcript will be real analysis (not an Econ course). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics