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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is tough in the DMV where so many kids are done with AP Calculus in 11th grade. My kid is on the lowest Math track in a Science and math magnet and won’t finish Calculus until 12th grade   So his college application won’t have an AP calculus exam result (most kids in his program  self study for AP calc BC in 11th grade). There is little we can do about this. My hope is that getting As in all math classes and hopefully scoring low to mid 700s in SAT math and mid to high 700s in SAT reading will compensate for not being on the highest/most rigorous math track offered in his program . It might shut him out of some of his college picks but in the long run I hope he will benefit from learning Math at a slower pace and under less pressure. It should not be a race especially for such a foundational subject [/quote]

I think, based on personal experience, is that even kids who find math easy, but end with Calculus AB in high school for whatever reason (that's all my school offered, back in the day) should go into any math-based major at a selective college thinking of themselves as learning disabled in math till proven otherwise. They should retake the last high school math course at the college level, go to every lecture and live in the TAs' offices until they know for sure they're on track in math, or they ought to be prepared to slide into some other major. The problem is that so many other kids have gone a year past Calculus BC and are going back and taking the equivalent of Calculus BC, or even calculus AB, so, they're a bunch of ringers. A regular good kid starts out two or three years behind.[/quote]

You know that in reality everything isn’t all sunshine and roses for everyone else, right? Some of those high schoolers who took graduated having taken Calculus Iii or whatever had crappy teachers and/or a crappy curriculum and they might not really have as great a math education as you think. Some of the top private schools aren’t allowing students to place out of many or any college classes at all these days. My daughter is having to retake some of the classes she could have placed out of at other schools because her school likes to be absolutely certain that she learned the material thoroughly in a rigorous class. If you are missing some pieces in your math education it can really affect your understanding and achievement in higher level classes. [/quote]

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