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[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]

A false premise can make any "if" true. AOs don't say they want hyper acceleration. That's not what "spiky" means. Spiky means having an achievement in something besides sitting in a class. [/quote]

Top colleges do say they want advanced and rigorous coursework. In STEM that means taking AP Calculus and Statistics, plus APs in sciences. Regardless of what colleges say that’s a good foundation for those intended majors. You can probably be fine with BC only in 12th, but doing it in 11th helps, because you can take concurrent Physics C and submit scores part of the application. That means Algebra in 7th, if you don’t want to take summer/compacted which are not ideal. In the end it’s a 2 year acceleration. More acceleration than this and it’s diminishing returns, better focus on other areas like extracurriculars.

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