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[quote=Anonymous]My kids have gone to public school, so I'm not sure if the situations are comparable (I see interesting threads on this boards about how competitive college selection is in privates.)

During my kid's middle school years, MCPS was changing curricula so that some of the feeders to her high school accelerated MS math so kids finished geometry in MS but hers didn't.  I found out (too late) that many kids from her own MS then took geometry in summer so they could be in Algebra II in 9th grade.  So in the end, my kid was a year behind the most advanced math track.

She ended up skipping AB calc so she had BC calc senior year.  Many of those other kids were in multivariate senior year.  Still, my kid got into an Ivy.

My feeling is that colleges don't see or know what kids did before they enter HS.  That means some kids start HS at different levels in math and languages.  And I think colleges kind of 'go' with that.  They don't know why it happened, but they just accept that one kid started in a lower math class, and they look at the rest of the curriculum in that light.

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