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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a child at UVA and from what I’ve seen, they admit students who took calculus (either AB or BC) senior year in the Arts & Sciences college.  Your child can take precalculus at community college perhaps. I think summer is a good time to take a hard math class because they can focus on just one subject although it will move fast.  [/quote]
Are you trying to say that UVA denies students who did not have calculus in high school?[/quote]

[b]Pretty much all top 30 schools will require Calculus AB or BC in order to be admitted.[/b] Otherwise, the student will need an extraordinary hook. I'm sure there are some exceptions for the pure humanities student, but not many. So for kids in 8th or 9th grade who might have an interest in Duke or Brown or UCLA or Michigan, I'd plan accordingly   [/quote]
"Require" is an overstatement. This is not as categorically true as it sounds in this post. Colleges are well aware that the middle school math track determines whether a student has the opportunity to take calc. Colleges do not dock students for not taking courses they did not have the opportunity to take due to a middle school math placement.

It is true that many students at top schools had some calc in high school, but correlation is not causation.[/quote]

It's not the case that universities 'require' calc for admission.  My kid is a peer advisor at an Ivy and this year has two kids who didn't take calc in HS.  It does put them behind in their intended major, but they were admitted.  She thinks (the kids said) that calc wasn't available in their HS.  So this doesn't necessarily translate to your case.  But it does happen.  (That said, I'd concur with a PP who said that admissions officer compare your kids with others in the school so if your kid is the only one a year behind, it would stand out.)

It is pretty common for kids to take geometry in the summer.  I'd strongly recommend they not try the other courses in the summer, as the algebra/pre-calc courses are pretty foundational.  But geometry works ok in the summer. See if your kid would allow them to take geometry over summer-- it is offered various places, but your school may not allow math credits to transfer in.
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