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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the pendulum is already swinging back. Parents thought they had the secret sauce with acceleration and “most rigorous course-load ever!!!” I don’t think this is proving to be the case any more. High SAT. High GPA. And show a passion and work ethic in something outside school. All this will get you into the crapshoot that is top 100 college admissions.

Sure, if you want to go the route of having a super-passion in math take all the math courses available—but don’t think that’s enough. [/quote]

This is true.  At the same, time what's really going on with Algebra 1 being taken younger, is it's not the same course as it used to be.  So possibly OP's school is teaching a more rigorous algebra 1 than everyone else, and that's why her DC didn't place in.  However, how does this play out now that admissions has been trained to think no one actually learns algebra until pre-calc?  Course names have stayed the same, but at most schools the content has been dialed back, this is what made the excessive acceleration possible.[/quote]

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