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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more important question is will the student be prepared for college without pre-calc. Any stem or business field is going to build upon calc, so entering college without having pre-calc would be detrimental. Even a humanities or art student will need to take a general college level math course. The bottom line is not taking pre-calc in high school is setting up for math failure in college. [/quote]

Blanket statements aren't useful. Unless maybe you mean, no pre-calc sets up STEM majors for problems.

DC didnt take pre-calc. Got into the college DC wanted (a selective LAC). Not a STEM or business major. Never needed a "general college level math course" because open curriculum meant econ qualified as a "quantitative" course to meet requirements. So it's not a universal truth that all students including humanities and art etc are going to tank in college if they don't do pre-calc in HS. Every college is different, every department is  different. Please avoid the scare statements making parents here think their kid will crash and burn if there's no pre-calc in HS. That depends on a lot of factors.[/quote]

My kid wants to go to Rice or Vandy. In fact those are the only two school they are applying to (I know, I know, they should apply to more).

I am hoping the lack of pre-calc is not going to be a problem. [/quote]

25th %ile Math SAT is 770 and 760, respectively.

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