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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anecdotal, but every kid I’ve known who took calc in 9th either dropped math forever before senior year or wound up doing an engineering degree at a state school.[/quote]

Anecdotal, but my kid took high level math and by senior year had to travel to George Mason for his Linear Algebra class. He indeed does go to a state school (UVA) and is a double major in math and another subject and wants to go into quant finance. He already has an internship this summer as a rising sophomore and no doubt it is his math accomplishments that has made him stand out. In addition to his accelerated math he has won a good amount of math competitions.

He has always been surrounded by top math students and his anecdotal experience has been the complete opposite of yours. These kids are insanely competitive. [/quote]

Your kid is also at a state school, so I don’t see how that experience is “the complete opposite” of mine. There are some great engineering programs at state schools. But some people on here seem to think that extreme math acceleration, by itself, makes a student a shoo-in for Ivy plus schools, or even HYPSM, and my point (and yours too) is that many accelerated math students wind up at their state flagship. [/quote]

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