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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anecdotal, but every kid I’ve known who took calc in 9th either dropped math forever before senior year or wound up doing an engineering degree at a state school.[/quote]

Anecdotal, but my kid took high level math and by senior year had to travel to George Mason for his Linear Algebra class. He indeed does go to a state school (UVA) and is a double major in math and another subject and wants to go into quant finance. He already has an internship this summer as a rising sophomore and no doubt it is his math accomplishments that has made him stand out. In addition to his accelerated math he has won a good amount of math competitions.

He has always been surrounded by top math students and his anecdotal experience has been the complete opposite of yours. These kids are insanely competitive. [/quote]

Your kid is also at a state school, so I don’t see how that experience is “the complete opposite” of mine. There are some great engineering programs at state schools. [b]But some people on here seem to think that extreme math acceleration, by itself, makes a student a shoo-in for Ivy plus schools, or even HYPSM[/b], and my point (and yours too) is that many accelerated math students wind up at their state flagship. [/quote]

I don’t think anyone has implied the above in bold, certainly not me. OP asked if math acceleration would be *detrimental* to one’s application, and all I’ve been saying is that in my DC’s case it wasn’t.[/quote]
How do you know? It still could’ve been a mark against their application, but they got in. No one’s application is perfect.[/quote]

If you truly think the AO reviewed DC’s app and decided “well, it sucks that this kid excelled at math beyond grade level, but I guess I’ll admit them anyway since HYPSM is so hard up for applicants,” then I don’t know what to tell you.[/quote]

Ha![/quote]

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