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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 have kids at both Vanderbilt and Rice. Both got in ED. The Vanderbilt kid did Calculus BC and he has a soft major. The Rice kid did Multivariable Calculus and he has a STEM major. I'm pretty sure that the likelihood of them getting into those schools without having done calculus is zero.

At Vanderbilt, you might be able to get in without pre-cal if you're a football or basketball recruit or perhaps the Blair School of Music, which is very good. At Rice, there is no chance of admittance without calculus.

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

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