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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's way too early to think of where she should go to college! She needs to do her best in high school first. Excel at what she has in front of her and revisit the question in 3 years. An outstanding humanities/social science student can be more attractive to elite colleges than another "average excellent" STEM applicant. Schools do want to see 4 years of math and sciences though, but AP calculus is not a requirement anywhere unless you say you want to be a science or engineering major.

FWIW, the math and science classes were a drudge for my DC.  DC topped out with AP bio and AP stats. But, DC was in another league in the preferred subjects, had raves from teachers, and demonstrated serious leadership beyond school. The college counselor was extremely confident that DC would get admitted to any of the reaches on the list in the early round.   [/quote]

Math is really overrated, seriously.  I got C in math in HS and college but now I am working in information security and I have people who majored math  and engineering from Stanford and CMU report to me.  The only math I need to know is binary math.[/quote]

[b]You don't need to read any books and you can be the president of the united states (someone like that just did it), and you will have the whole executive branch giverment report to you. That does mot mean that's wise.[/b][/quote]

That's not what I meant to say at all.  You can do poorly in math and still can go to Stanford if you do well in other things.  Life on earth do not involve solely on math.  While Elon Musk was probably good in math, I seriously doubt that anne akiko meyers  (famous violinist) was as good in math as Elon Musk.  If one is not good in math, there is a high probability that he or she will struggle with engineering majors but not with Information Technology.  Having good in math has nothing with his or her ability to manage other engineers or scientists.  That's my point.[/quote]

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