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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges over admit usually for math talent and under admit for artistic and creative talent. The rush to get every student through Vector calc before finishing high school is stupid.[/quote] There is no rush to get "every kid" through, and colleges aren't preferentially admitting the tiny, tiny few that do anyway, unless they have substantive achievements. The pressure for Asian kids to take vector calc is coming from parents whose see kids NOT getting in, and think that pushing ahead will help because they have experience in the Chinese or Indian system of college admissions. Also, vector calc is hard for a math scholar to learn in high school. A generation or two ago, a kid on track for that would skip a year of high school and go to college early. Now, we let the kids stay in high school, which is good. [/quote]
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