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[quote=Anonymous]A typical course load at a selective DC private high school means taking 4 years of math culminating in a calculus, even if your child is clearly a humanities type. Working backwards, that means he/she takes algebra in 8th grade. The vast majority of students at the big 3 follow this progression. Students at some schools take summer classes to accelerate the progression, while others generally discourage summer classes to jump the sequence. No college will look askance at an applicant who does not go beyond calc BC in high school because so few high schools in the country offer advanced math. But, the selective privates, the magnets and many of the better DC area suburban high schools do offer post-calculus classes and admission odds are going to be different for a STEM student who takes advanced math than the classmate with the same GPA/scores who doesn't. [/quote]
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