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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College prof here.  This thread seems to think there is something wrong in the HS math system broadly defined.  Maybe there is: it's not my area, so I won't critique that.

But no one here has mentioned that many college students with math requirements can actually choose which course(s) they take.  At my college, it doesn't matter what they took in HS: if they are not in a STEM-ish program, they often have only one required math course, and they are going to choose the lowest one they possibly can so they can earn a good grade with the least amount of work possible.  TBH I don't blame them if they're not going to need calc or the like later on in their anticipated career.[/quote]

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My kid who completed Calc in HS and had a 720 math score took the easy math course for his quant requirement because he's not a STEM major and had challenging other courses and he couldn't count the statistics courses for his major for the major and for the gen ed math requirement.  So he took some applied math course that was an easy A for him.[/quote]

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