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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do most colleges start with pre calculus as a credit course? I’m confused how this is an AP course.

The whole meaning of AP has shifted.[/quote]

Yes, the AP program is now doing a lot more curriculum support and standardization, including standardization of which classes colleges will weight in recomputing GPA. The College Board already offered curricula for Pre-AP Algebra I, Pre-AP Geometry, Pre-AP Algebra II, and AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, and AP Stats. If you were looking to the College Board for curriculum support, and many high schools do, precalc was kind of a glaring hole.

But also yes, pretty much all colleges now have Precalculus. Some elite schools are kind of sneaky about it. Georgetown (which requires all applicants to report SAT scores) has a full-year “Calculus with review” course (“incorporating algebra and Precalculus reviews as needed”) for students who don’t score high enough on their math placement test to take regular Calc I. So, does Georgetown teach a course called Precalculus? No. Do they teach Precalculus? Yes.[/quote]

To answer more directly…98% of all colleges offer Precalc (and below) as credit courses.  DCUM fixates on the most selective schools, but of course there are 3,000 (non CC) colleges most of which have 80%+ acceptance rates where these math courses are credit classes.[/quote]

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