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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those who claim math acceleration is detrimental to admission into highly selective colleges are off their rocker so long as the student does well in the classes.  It's this simple:  a student taking linear or diff equations or elements of numbers or field theory or whatever, will have a stronger applicant file than a student who doesn't have that on their app.  That's true if the student comes from a high resource school where everyone is taking calc bc their senior year.  It is also true for the student in some underresourced school who went into their local college system.

I think a lot of parents who have children on the "regular" sequence of Calc BC by junior or senior year are bitter that there are students more capable than theirs.
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Calc BC your junior or senior year is NOT "Regular".  Normal is Percalc senior year, but for "good schools" it's becoming Calculus by senior year.  Taking AP/College leveled courses in HS is NOT "regular".

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