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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If from a decently resourced public school, AP Calc BC by sophomore year is recommended.  Many of the replies are from private school parents who are ignorant of the gate-keeping of public school students to Ivies.  A public school student at a middle or upper-middle class high school has to be 10X the scholar a private school student has to be.

The majority of Princeton's non-hooked students took math above Calculus BC. At MIT, more than 50% of unhooked public school students had math higher than BC.  [/quote]

I am fairly sure that basically zero kids at Stuy, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, etc. do calc as sophomores, and I don't think many even do it as a junior. And they do fine with college acceptances and once they get to college.

Colleges want kids who do the best with what is offered. So the schools don't need to offer these things to keep up with each other. Parents are being bamboozled. But the damage is done and it isn't being changed. So now you are forced to do it. Which is dumb.[/quote]

Wrong.  Dozens take it each year.  So your "fairly sure" basically meant you were guessing.[/quote]

Not sure why you are so angry about this. Especially since you are wrong. My kid was accepted to one of these schools and almost attended (chose to go to private). I have toured all three and know many kids at all three. There are some who do it as a junior. But not a huge number. And they are not necessarily the students with the best college outcomes.

But you sit in your exurban DMV house with the minivan in the driveway and tell me how NYC schools work.[/quote]

You bunch are arguing over nothing. "Dozens per year" out of 700-2000 students at 1-3 schools is the same as "basically zero". You're all throwing around arbitrary numbers [/quote]

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