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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of these super advanced MCPS kids do not impress admissions people. It is perfectly fine to take Calc as a senior. Once again it is the stupid DMV bias here. Get out of your bubble.[/quote]

Oh.  I must have missed the part where MCPS kids are banned from elite universities and don’t excel in NMSF and win national awards.[/quote]

Some kid who takes calculus in the womb in DMV is not seen as being any better than a kid who takes it as a senior, all other things being equal. Yet so many people here get their panties in a bunch because their kids aren't taking calc and physics and whatever soon enough. Doesn't matter.

[b]Stuy, Bronx Science, Dalton, Trinity, Horace Mann[/b], Scarsdale, Millburn kids don't do any of this.[/quote]

Don’t do any of what? Top NYC HS families are most certainly obsessed with mad cancer track math placement and recruitable sports since middle school  [/quote]

Nope. Most kids at these schools take a normal academic track. Usually calc as a senior, occasionally as a junior. And most of them are smarter than your kids. But they and their parents don't wear it on their sleeves and compete to see who can accelerate more. Acceleration is really not that exciting. The schools are doing you a disservice.

And no, all kids at top NYC privates are not getting into top colleges just because of money. Lots of super smart kids there (mixed in with some money).

And to the other poster, if you have never heard of Scarsdale or Millburn then you really need to leave your DMV bubble. Two of the top publics in America. Rather than saying "never heard of them," look them up.

So many people advertising their lack of global knowledge here. Lots of know-it-alls without any experience.[/quote]

Yup, never heard of those public schools, despite growing up in New York and attending Ivies for undergrad and grad school.

But I had plenty of university classmates from the public magnets Stuy and Bronx Science, and it's enough to know that you have no idea what you're talking about when you say students there aren't accelerated in their math programming. You might try reading their web pages to educate yourself rather than spouting off misinformation.[/quote]

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