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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC1: just started his fourth year of college majoring in Computer Engineering
09:  Honors Biology/Honors Geometry
10: Honors Chemistry/Honors Alegbra II
11: AP Chemistry and Honors Physics (they did not offer AP Physics 1 yet)/ Honors Precalc
12: AP Physics C/ AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics

DC2: just started his sophomore year of college majoring in at least Math and trying to decide on double
09: Honors Biology/Honors Algebra II
10: Honors Chemistry/ Honors Precalc and AP Statistics
11: AP Biology & AP Physics 1/ AP Calculus BC
12: AP Chemistry & AP Physics C / Multivariable Calculus and Matrix Algebra 
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Not sure if you will come back to see this but really curious

1.  Was it their choice to accelerate so much??? or honestly was it more GPA padding/trying to get into a good college by taking the "toughest courseload"[b]itwasnt really an acceleration, they just took the next course in the sequence.  We are a math and science family.  They were in gen ed English for most years. [/b]
2.  Assuming they got good scores on some of the tests.  Did their college advisors warn about skipping the foundation courses [b]the older one got 4s onhis APs and the younger one got 5s on all of his. No advisor warned of skipping foundation classes, in fact, they discovered they have had an excellent foundation. [/b]
3.  What did your sons end up doing.  Did your sons skip the first College Calculus course and go directly into the second course or did they start with the first class 110 of University Calculus, what about physics.  I'm assuming they could used the AP Chem and Bio credit(s) since that isn't their fields of study and getting credit for AP Stats makes sense too.   [b]the older one only took one semester Calc credit because other people warned him of skipping too much. It turned out to be a total repeat,  which was fine for him because it made for an easy first semester and he started out with an excellent GPA. His GPA has been better than it was in in HS (unweighted of course).  The AP Stat course ended up being useless for both of them. He skipped with AP Chem but took AP Physics as he got a 4 and they required a 5 to skip. He got the most credits from his AP histories.

The second one got credit for the whole first year Calculus and another semester of Matrix Algebra and Multivariable Algebra, he went straight into second semester sophomore year math.  He also go credit for a year of physics and went straight into Quantum Physics.  He did really well in both.  He got a semester each for Bio and Chem.  He took has been doing very well in college and has found himself very well prepared by his HS classes. 
  
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