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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a child at UVA and from what I’ve seen, they admit students who took calculus (either AB or BC) senior year in the Arts & Sciences college.  Your child can take precalculus at community college perhaps. I think summer is a good time to take a hard math class because they can focus on just one subject although it will move fast.  [/quote]
Are you trying to say that UVA denies students who did not have calculus in high school?[/quote]

Pretty much all top 30 schools will require Calculus AB or BC in order to be admitted. Otherwise, the student will need an extraordinary hook. I'm sure there are some exceptions for the pure humanities student, but not many. So for kids in 8th or 9th grade who might have an interest in Duke or Brown or UCLA or Michigan, I'd plan accordingly   [/quote]
"Require" is an overstatement. This is not as categorically true as it sounds in this post. Colleges are well aware that the middle school math track determines whether a student has the opportunity to take calc. Colleges do not dock students for not taking courses they did not have the opportunity to take due to a middle school math placement.

It is true that many students at top schools had some calc in high school, but correlation is not causation.[/quote]

It would depend on the high school. If someone is finishing up high school with pre-cal while many of their peers are in calculus AB or BC or multivariable or statistics, I think it would be very unlikely that there's a selective college in their future.

Many families in the DMV have moved here from elsewhere and find that they're not quite in their preferred math sequence. Summer school is very common for 8th and 9th graders to catch up. That's what we did. Ours wanted to study engineering so there wasn't much of a choice but to get to the advanced math classes.[/quote]

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