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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will be life-altering based on my experience. [/quote]

Thanks, chicken little.  As a counterpoint, at my DC’s private HS, the bottom 1/3, all of whom probably have multiple Cs (GPA’s sub 3.25), almost all got into top 100 or top 150 colleges. Including VT, UVM, Colorado-Boulder, Indiana, Clemson, Fordham, RIT, WPI.

Look, was skipping pre-Calc the best move?  No.  Almost certainly not.  Not sure why people thing they need to get beyond Calc in HS. But getting a B (or even a C or 2) will not inalterable change your DC’s life trajectory, unless a big part of that trajectory was being dead set on being a member of The Harvard Club of DC.  Which, let’s all face it, is the reason people want to go to Harvard, much more than the actual education.

But in the end if OP’s DS attends a college at all well known and dies well there, he will be more than fine in the long run.  [/quote]

A high school like yours would never have permitted this kid to skip precalc in the first place.

This kid does not have the foundation he needs to go forward in math. That is the potentially life-altering problem, not which college he goes to. [/quote]

It depends how the school sets up the curriculum nat my high school, in parent times, precalc was for the kids who had problems with math. Students who were good at math went straight from trig to calculus. [/quote]

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