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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That is crazy!  Make sure she takes calculus by 12th grade, unless she wants to be an engineer. -- mother of two, one of whom is at HYP and the other at a top-20 university.[/quote]

I don't know anyone who has a Bachelor's that didn't take Calculus before their senior year of high school. But I know plenty of people who took Calculus their sophomore or junior years who don't have a Bachelor's Degree.[/quote]

Then you know very, very few people or the people you know are all so burned out that they gave up (or you are not sampling US colleges). I know plenty of successful people with graduate degrees who did not take Calculus until college (or in some cases, at all). I went to a top 25 college on full academic scholarship with 12th grade calculus-- AB.  dThese days, [b]a kid planning to attend a selective college probably should aim for Calculus.[/b]  And maybe potential engineering and math majors should look at accelerating a year beyond that. But stop the insanity. Your average Doctor/lawyer/MBA/psychologist PHd, etc does not need linear algebra and Multivariable calculus in high school to get into and succeed at a top tier college. Signed, a successful lawyer who has looked at a differential equation since HS. Calculus has no relevance for 90+% of real life "successful" jobs. [/quote]

Kids planning to attend ANY college should aim for Calculus.[/quote]

My child only had pre-calc / AP Stats and had no problem getting into the colleges of her choice such as URichmond, JMU, American, some others..[/quote]

Okay, so maybe some kids can miraculously get into college without taking calculus. But there's the matter of graduating. The kids who want to graduate from college, particularly on time, should definitely take Calculus. Otherwise they don't stand a chance.[/quote]

This just made me laugh.  Calculus is only necessary for kids going the engineering route.  Do you even have kids in college yet, or are you just an uber-helicopter parent?  I have one in high school and two currently in college.  Each took pre-calculus, hated it, and finished with stats, which they enjoyed and found useful.  And yet each "miraculously" was accepted to the colleges of their choice.  They are very much English/social sciences kids and math never appealed to them, so they took the minimum amount required - with our blessing.  Why are you trying to make parents even more anxious by spreading such false information?[/quote]

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