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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very few applicants to T 15 colleges don't take Calc BC.  The ones that do are usually from lower performing schools or those students from a lower socioeconomic background/ FGLI or underrepresented in STEM.[/quote]

You should add - “from your school.”  At my DC’s local private school, Calc BC is not a differentiator unless you are applying for engineering. The school requires a year of AB before you take BC, so the kids that are entering high school from public schools that push kids ahead in math early on tend to be the ones that end up with BC or even MV calculus/linear algebra. Most kids come from private schools that aren’t super accelerated in math. Geometry in 9th is common for these kids and they end up in Calc AB senior year. Considered most rigorous. [/quote]

This appears to be true in so many privates.  Rigor is much less important than GPA.  Even more so for ivies and top LACs, as they look for GPA consistency.  Competition level is high as everyone wants to do Finance after college.

[b]But the rigor kids have other non-ivy schools like Cornell CALS or Eng,[/b] CMU, and JHU.  If the kid is engineering or premed bound, those schools are good options anyway.  These schools are not popular among private school kids, so the competition level is lower.[/quote]

FYI: Cornell is in the Ivy League.[/quote]

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