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[quote=Anonymous]What is your "advanced" child planning to do senior year?  The main benefit to advancing early is the chance to skip a year in HS and apply to college a year early, with something to show for it

How did the Calculus whiz do in math contests? Precalculus + a high AMC/AiME score is far, far more impressive then MVC and Diff Equ
 The AMC/AIME score would show years of more rigorous EC academic learning than muddling through the school calculus classes.
Similar goes for USAChO Chemistry and F=ma/USA phi Physics.

If you aren't a USAMOcRegeneron finalist or similar, it shows that those advanced courses didn't unlock your potential, and you're already a book-smart test-hacking mediocrity. Colleges would rather gamble on someone who didn't race/skip the foundational study, and still has untapped potential.

T20 colleges know that AP courses are not up to their caliber. They expect to see you show that you've gone deeper into the subject than just box checking the course. Doing an AP course is table stakes for an highly privileged kid. [/quote]

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