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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of high schools are people going to with all these math courses? DD goes to a top high school and it just has 1 post AP math course.[/quote]

Students in DC can take classes in Montgomery College, Howard, GW and Georgetown. There are similar offerings in MCPS and Northern VA school districts (Blair and TJ have many of these classes in house). Students can technically do 6 semesters of math (as well as AP Physics C Mechanics and E&M) after BC. And these will be college classes on their transcripts. There are kids who have done MVC, Linear Algebra, Diff Eq, Real/Complex analysis, number theory/topology/linear algebra for math majors etc as bona fide college classes and have done well in them. Not many, but they certainly exist.

So acceleration beyond BC in 9th or 10th grade depends on the student.
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We had a neighbor who was a math prodigy. When he ran out of college courses to take, he hired a ivy league college math professor to design a specialized curriculum for him and tutor him in it. He ended up at that school afterwards, because he had a strong recommendation from that professor.[/quote]

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