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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would absolutely redo geometry and do honors there. I don’t get this thing of kids trying to accelerate or stay accelerated unless they are super super strong math kids.

[b]From a college perspective they directionally care about two thing - what was the grade and was it honors. [/b]

I made this call in high school years ago and redid geometry in 9th and my math grades were better than they would’ve been as was my happiness and sanity and I went to HYP so never was a problem.
. Now in my DCs class I see all these kids reaching to accelerate and some just got midterm assessments back with Ds and Cs. Why is that good for anyone.[/quote]

+100.  I watched a video where an admission counselor showed the process of reviewing an admissions file and one of the first things they did was summarize the grades and rigor for each year like 9th 3 H(A), 1AP(B) and looked at that alongside the school profile to see what was offered like some schools may restrict how many AP and Honors classes.

Also, I had one child that placed into a high level math freshman year and dropped down to decelerate each year after that. I feel like there are knowledge gaps.  In contrast their sibling didn’t do well on the placement test .  At the time taking Honors Algebra 1 again in 9th seemed like the end of the world but they aced it, took honors geometry in the summer, worked their way up to taking AB Calc their senior year and overall has a better grounding in math. We also think the boost from Honors/AP (and getting good grades in those classes) really helped in college admissions - at state schools like MD that weighted GPA helped and at liberal arts schools seeing the coursework rigor helped.[/quote]

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