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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Vector(multivariable) calc is a common math track taught in high school by phDs at the top private and public schools in Boston and NYC and per my sibling in Virginia, is taught in their kid’s public magnet and about 30 students a year are on that track. It is about one third of the private school graduating class up in my area. When mine went off to their T10s and my sibling’s kids went to an ivy they found that in their premed/engineering classes more than half of their new freshman friends had taken vector calc in HS. What was rare was the kids who had vector in 11th and then by the end of 12th had diffEQ and linear and proof type math. This group overwhelmingly is international, especially canada. For my prelaw kid at his T10 it was not as common but many had. 
The experience of vector calc in HS does not move the needle because colleges only judge you on what is offered. But make no mistake, it is not at all rare for freshman in college to have already taken post-calculus math as a regular part of their high school curriculum. No pushy moms needed: the curricula are designed that way and have been since my kids were in the elementary portion of their k-12, or about 2011[/quote]

First of all,  there is no such thing as “pre-law.”” Second, why is advanced calculus relevant to “pre-law?”[/quote]

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