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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP Precalculus would not get credit for any math/science major in a 4-year college. 
Precalculus is high school level, a remedial math in college.
It might be useful for an associates degree or to fulfill a gen ed math requirement for a community college or a low or mid tier college's non-science major.

It might be useful if you believe that your dream  college doesn't trust MCPS to give an honest grade in the high school class.

AP Physics I (non-calculus version) is similar.

I'd look for what colleges say about it before dumping more. $$ into College Board. 
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Yes. AP Precalculus does not make much sense for kids who will take calculus in high school. Their colleges may not give credit for non-college level courses and in any case, they have the chance to get real college credit the next year after they take AP Calculus. In contrast, AP Precalculus does make sense for kids taking 9th grade Algebra 1. They may receive college credit for Precalculus depending on what college they attend which could fulfill their distributional requirements if they don't intend to major in STEM. That was the whole point of why AP Precalculus was created - to give kids who don't take high school calculus some way to demonstrate their math proficiency. Those are the kids that districts should be putting into AP Precalculus, not kids who need rigorous preparation for calculus.[/quote]

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