Anonymous
02/05/2026 22:33
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
]Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our public has Calc BC as the highest math, and ours finished with Precalc junior year and AP Stats senior year. In early to HYP, humanities major with one international award (honestly, not sure how much that even mattered), and a best in career LOR, really good essays. (I'm the PP above)
No hooks? URM or recruited athlete?
No, ORM and no sport at all
Anonymous
02/05/2026 22:31
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Anonymous wrote:Our public has Calc BC as the highest math, and ours finished with Precalc junior year and AP Stats senior year. In early to HYP, humanities major with one international award (honestly, not sure how much that even mattered), and a best in career LOR, really good essays. (I'm the PP above)
No hooks? URM or recruited athlete?
Anonymous
02/05/2026 21:22
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Our public has Calc BC as the highest math, and ours finished with Precalc junior year and AP Stats senior year. In early to HYP, humanities major with one international award (honestly, not sure how much that even mattered), and a best in career LOR, really good essays. (I'm the PP above)
Anonymous
02/05/2026 21:14
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Doesn't it depend on your HS?
If all of the lowest-tier kids don't take Calc AB, then all of your "competition" will have?
If all of the lowest-tier kids don't take Calc AB, then all of your "competition" will have?
Anonymous
02/05/2026 21:12
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Wow I'm surprised by this. CW is that Calc AB is needed for T20, esp Ivy and T10 for ANY major, including humanities (perhaps excluding arts if that is housed in a separate college)
Anonymous
02/05/2026 20:31
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
My humanities kid took ap precalculus junior year and is currently taking zero math of any kind. So far accepted into VT and Northeastern (Boston). Deferred from UVA. Still waiting on four more.
Anonymous
02/05/2026 20:23
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A friend's kid took precalc in 11th and AP Stats in 12th with no Calc. Accepted into the IRL school at Cornell. Large [underfunded] public school, no hooks.
DP: This was my kid, who got into every school they applied to (most selective had 20% acceptance rate). DCUM says taking Calc senior year is important, but my kids college counselor said AP Stats was a perfectly fine substitute for a humanities or social science major.
Same here. Accepted HYPS this round, no Calc
And U bet, left unsaid, was Hooked
Hooked if you count humanities major with awards
Anonymous
02/05/2026 19:58
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A friend's kid took precalc in 11th and AP Stats in 12th with no Calc. Accepted into the IRL school at Cornell. Large [underfunded] public school, no hooks.
DP: This was my kid, who got into every school they applied to (most selective had 20% acceptance rate). DCUM says taking Calc senior year is important, but my kids college counselor said AP Stats was a perfectly fine substitute for a humanities or social science major.
Same here. Accepted HYPS this round, no Calc
And U bet, left unsaid, was Hooked
Anonymous
02/05/2026 19:45
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A friend's kid took precalc in 11th and AP Stats in 12th with no Calc. Accepted into the IRL school at Cornell. Large [underfunded] public school, no hooks.
DP: This was my kid, who got into every school they applied to (most selective had 20% acceptance rate). DCUM says taking Calc senior year is important, but my kids college counselor said AP Stats was a perfectly fine substitute for a humanities or social science major.
Same here. Accepted HYPS this round, no Calc
Anonymous
02/05/2026 18:59
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Anonymous wrote:A friend's kid took precalc in 11th and AP Stats in 12th with no Calc. Accepted into the IRL school at Cornell. Large [underfunded] public school, no hooks.
DP: This was my kid, who got into every school they applied to (most selective had 20% acceptance rate). DCUM says taking Calc senior year is important, but my kids college counselor said AP Stats was a perfectly fine substitute for a humanities or social science major.
Anonymous
02/05/2026 18:54
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Minimal.
Anonymous
02/05/2026 14:18
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
A friend's kid took precalc in 11th and AP Stats in 12th with no Calc. Accepted into the IRL school at Cornell. Large [underfunded] public school, no hooks.
Anonymous
02/05/2026 14:12
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
Unweighted GPA? Test scores? Major of interest? Budget? In other words, what level of selectivity would otherwise be relevant here?
Anonymous
02/05/2026 14:08
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
difficult for anything super selective.
if true humanities (e.g., not social sciences), then Wisconsin or its ilk is possible.
if true humanities (e.g., not social sciences), then Wisconsin or its ilk is possible.
Anonymous
02/05/2026 14:06
Subject: precalc highest math in high school
what will be the impact of this on collegest for a humanities or design major