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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, cash grab but all schools will adjust their math offerings to accommodate this and it will be normalized. College admissions officers won’t blink. It is treated differently at different districts though. At ours, it’s the “middle of the road” tracking. Accelerated students would never take AP Pre Calc, there is a more advance pre calc class for those students. Likewise, struggling math students would not take it either. So when used this way, I don’t see an issue with it. [/quote]
The problem is that several area districts are putting accelerated students into AP Pre Calc and have eliminated the more advanced pre calc class.[/quote]

This is exactly what happened at our school.  They eliminated “honors” so the only two choices for pre-Calc were AP and regular.  So, my stem-oriented sophomore daughter went with AP just to show she was trying to challenging herself and to demonstrate “rigor.”  It was also particularly annoying because she is a high-achieving dyslexic who is managing to do quite well in her history/English/etc classes but will never be in the AP levels of these classes, so she felt she had to get going with the AP classes because other classmates were doing APs as sophomores, but it really was the only discipline where she could choose an AP she could realistically tackle.  [/quote]

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