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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It goes without saying that taking the class at a more traditional year (jr or sr) and getting an A is better than accelerating and not getting an A.

My kid too BC as soph, stats as jr and multi and linear algebra for DE.  At top 5 for CS.

If your school doesn’t offer post-AP, I don’t think you get dinged for taking Stats one year (or the order you take it).[/quote]

I agree with this.  I have an 8th grader in precalc and he plans to re-take precalc next yr. While he has doing find, it has been a big challenge and I think it is better to slow down acceleration and really get firm mastery.  I dont know what precalc your 8th grader has access to, but I have found ours has been very fast paced and lacking instruction.  The adv precalc offered at high school is more in depth, so we are going to do that vs plowing ahead to AP calc as a freshman. This is his projected path if he retakes precalc, which seems plenty rigorous:

9th- adv precalc
10- AP calc BC
11- Advanced calculus 
12- complex variables or discrete math 
[/quote]When did they take algebra, geometry, and algebra 2?[/quote]

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