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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more important question is will the student be prepared for college without pre-calc. Any stem or business field is going to build upon calc, so entering college without having pre-calc would be detrimental. [b]Even a humanities or art student will need to take a general college level math course[/b]. The bottom line is not taking pre-calc in high school is setting up for math failure in college. [/quote]

Yes, I agree that if they are going into STEM, some aspects of Business (though marketing and the like at a non-selective school isn't going to build on calc) or many Social Sciences (Econ, Psych, Sociology all have quant focus in their research) or if they are going to a selective school. But for a general math credit,  they can take statistics or something like that and usually schools have options for pass/fail in a non-major math class.  Once you step outside of the selective college realm, there's a lot more options.  I would still encourage a kid to take Pre-Calc (Calc actually too!), but she's not doomed if she doesn't.
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WVU is not selective and requires Calc for Marketing majors: http://catalog.wvu.edu/undergraduate/collegeofbusinessandeconomics/marketing/#majortext[/quote]

The minimum is Applied Calculus, which does not have Precalculus as a prereq. You can get through it without trigonometry and the other "non real-world" parts of math that don't relate at all to marketing.
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Applied Calc is not hard but you are kidding yourself if you think a kid not prepared for Pre-Calc in [i]high school[/i] is going to do well in college Applied Calc where there is no hand holding, extra credit, etc. [/quote]

But there is grading on the curve in college.[/quote]

That makes no difference if the kid is not prepared for the course. [/quote]

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