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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a college Freshman at VT who took BC calc in 10th, MVC in 11th and was tapped out of what the school could offer. He declined to take LA or DEQ at nova his senior year. The problem is since he took calculus 2 soooo long ago he has to spend a lot of time reviewing and absolutely had to retake MVC this year as. a freshman because the AP classes do not even compare at all to college rigors. At least not at VT.

with my 2nd kid i absolutely would not let him take calc 2 so early. it really hinders them in college since the material is so old by the time they get there. I would do AB in 10th BC in 11th and MVC in 12th and then retake MVC freshman in college since they will have a very strong and much more fresh calculus background and use that as a GPA booster in college.

BTW my son is a math major and in the honors college  and got 780 on his SATs and still had to retake MVC in college due to the lack of rigor that AP offers. If he could do it again i probably would have seen if he could have done all of his calculus HS classes at George Mason. If that had been the case a huge chunk of his college major would already be retired and he probably could have very very easily slipped in a 2nd major. [/quote]

MVC is not an AP class. It is a high school class or a dual enrollment class at a college. [/quote]

yes i am aware, he took it in high school via NoVA and it was very very watered down. He got an A extremely easily. He said his AP and DE classes were noting close to the rigors at university. For starters all of his homework needs to be turned in using LaTeX, which he was given exactly 2 days to learn at the start of the semester. [/quote] LaTeX is not a good reason to delay math by a whole year. It can be learned in a few days, and definitely over the summer.[/quote]

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