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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you ever want to go to grad school for anything there will be algebra (and geometry, ugh) on the GRE, unless it has changed substantially. [/quote]

In my Antitrust course in law school, we used quadratic equations to measure marketshare of companies to prove or disprove the existence/size of monopolies, duopolies, oligopolies etc.[/quote]

It's true.  OP is saying s/he may not use it in real life - which is probably true - but the fact is that in order to pass the SOLs, the ACTs, score well on PSAT/SAT, graduate HS, get into a college, graduate from college, get accepted into a masters or law or Ph.D. program, everyone is now looking for advanced math skills (and science as well).

The first question son was asked in college interviews was "how far have you gone in math?"  "Calculus?".  Nope, so now we are doing it as a summer course because the college wants calculus out of the way before he starts.

And for what it's worth, the most lucrative college majors now all require advanced STEM stills:  Petroleum engineering, engineering of any kind, robotics, computer science.  Even the coding of computers requires advanced math skills.[/quote]

Well, we've established that this is a requirement, the question is, is there any logic for these requirements?[/quote]

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