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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math acceleration isn’t valued at liberal arts colleges. This poster isn’t wrong.[/quote]

Disagree. Any selective college values students taking the most accelerated courses available, but there are always other considerations too. [/quote]

Parent myth, misunderstanding of what "rigorous courseload" checkbox means. They just want to see the honors/AP variants of whatever class the student is in.

Colleges aren't admitting kids based on whatever shenanigans their parents pulled in middle school. [/quote]

Not a “parent myth” if heard from current or former AOs. There is no one strategy that works for all students or all schools, but the idea that a little acceleration generally counts the same as a lot of acceleration is false. A lot of acceleration might add less than other things, like better grades, LORs, or ECs, but that’s a different statement. If all else is truly equal, a lot of acceleration is better than a little, whether in a classroom or out.  Hence “spiky” kids having advantages over the merely “well rounded.”[/quote]

Wondering if you're the same person who turns around and cries when you find out that someone with "lower stats" got your kid's spot at an Ivy. [/quote]

Very happy with where my kids got admitted, but then they were in accelerated math. [/quote]

And preparation to perform well in non-introductory courses was as important to us as the college itself. [/quote]

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