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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your post is giving me anxiety, my kids are in elementary. So are you saying that we should invest in math tutors?[/quote]

The one piece of solid advice I can offer is that A kid who is not at least  in pre-algebra in seventh grade is going to have a hard time with college admissions.  [b]Most competitive schools want to see calculus on  the transcript[/b]. There are 4  classes between calculus and pre-algebra algebra, geometry, algebra-2and  pre-calculus. Once you’re off that track it’s pretty hard.[/quote]

This was true over 20 years ago, when I was applying to college. Anyone who had any academic ambition was at least taking calculus in senior year. I did, and I wasn’t even a math person or at the top of my class. [/quote]

Yeah, I don't think this is news. The majority if my prep school did both the calculus AB and BC APs. I imagine the track is the same now as it was then. I guess some schools don't do this? Or I guess the schools do it but the kids can't handle that? There were kids who didn't do the BC AP because math wasn't their thing, but they at least did AB. I would say that 100% of our graduating class did, actually.[/quote]

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