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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our private school I have seen kid without taking the highest math rigor get into Princeton this year but the kid was deep into languages and classics.[/quote]

But what do you mean when you say "without taking the highest math rigor "? If all you mean is that the student did not reach the highest available classes, then you are misinterpreting what colleges expect. For the most part, a humanities major would be considered "highest rigor" with Calculus AB.[/quote]

+2 At my DC’s private school, you can’t chose to take Calc AB or Calc BC. You have to take Calc AB for a year and then Calc BC. This just isn’t possible for a lot of kids that aren’t entering high school at a certain level of math. Kids in Calc AB senior year are among the top students. There are definitely kids in Calc BC, multivariate calculus, and linear algebra, but the numbers are really low. So it is all in the context of your school. I have heard that at public schools where large number of kids are super accelerated in math Calc BC might be a rigor threshold. Private schools just don’t push acceleration as much. [/quote]

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