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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm surprised the school even allowed him to do this.

Skipping pre-calc altogether?[/quote]

This. And ai say thing as the parent of a former TJ kid. That’s not a flex.  It’s establishing I’ve been in a culture of self study and skipping math classes.  It often ends badly. Math and foreign language are two subjects I would  never commend skipping.  The problem isn’t the B in Calc.  Although that won’t help a male applicant to top engineering schools, if that’s  the goal. When VT came to TJ, they said they wanted to see As in Calculus (TJ calculus, mind you, which is AP on steroids) to know the kid had the foundation to succeed in the program.

It’s that it only gets harder from here, and your kid is looking at multivariable, linear, plus another year after that. And low Calc AP scores means your kid is retaking the class in college anyway.  IME, skipping pre-Calc was a bad call. But it’s only September.  Your kid can probably talk to the counselor, admit AP was a mistake, and ask to be moved to pre-Calc. I had a kid do this, and their grade started over. And they were no responsible for making up past chapters. But, they needed to review them because midterms and finals. A surprising plus of this plan is that once the bad math placement was off my kids plate, all the other grades went up. Because all the time and energy wasn’t going to keeping her head above water in math.

Get the foundation. Not having it is like pulling out rods in Jenna. Your kids who math understanding is less stable.  BC Calc as a junior with an A plus linear/MV is fine for almost any college, even the strong engineering/CD. And your kid isn’t getting into MIT with a math B anyway. And the B in M-V/ linear, because they are probably missing concepts and don’t fully understand Calc BC.

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As a former math major I agree!!! Math builds on itself. Your kid needs a strong foundation. Skipping precalc and struggling with calc is not the recipe for success.[/quote]

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