As the title states, I have a 790 on Math, but took AP Stats instead of pre-calc and graduated early from high school. I studied pre-calc and trigonometry outside of school, but didn’t list it on my application. Should I inform all of my schools about this that I applied regular decision to? Do they realize that I studied pre-calc and trig because of my high math SAT score?
They would have no way to know this. Are you saying you self studied?
What math courses DID you take in high school?
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Algebra 1 in 8th grade, Honors Geo in 9th, Honors Alg 2 in 10th, AP Stats in 11th, and a big family event happened 2nd semester junior year which made me graduate early after 1st semester senior year. No math class senior year.
Did you self study precalc and trig…or what?
Where did you apply to college…and what is your intended major?
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Depends on the schools you applied to. Do any of them have a 4 years of math requirement?
You have already been admitted to a college as an athlete? And you have also received an acceptance to a better school.
So…what is the issue?
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I did self-study precalc and trig. I’ve applied to T20 schools. Econ/Finance. Econ for every Ivy. None have a math requirement. I’m looking to get into a true target for IB, I got into a semi-target. Schools like Georgetown, UChicago, etc are my top schools.
You have applied and will just have to wait and see the outcomes.
If you are or aren’t accepted at these reach schools, you will never know why.
At this point, have you applied to, and been accepted, and committed to the school where you are a recruited athlete? Or what?
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This is just my opinion, but your HS math courses will be a big negative on your Ivy League applications. Most of the kids applying to these schools have taken 4 or more years of math through Calculus at least.
As a side note: I hope you’ve let your D3 baseball coach know that you’re not really committing to their program. They need to know asap so they can fill your roster spot.
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Evaluation needs to be conducted with supporting evidence. Without a transcript showing the course, they can think anything but cannot use as decision making factor. The advantageous factor here is your high score at 790.
By the way, can the OP edit the post title? It’s “effect”, not “affect”. This is my teacher personality speaking.
My understanding is that the SAT tests through Algebra II. So, no, the test does not provide evidence of mastery of higher-level math.
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Economics and business/finance majors at many colleges (including prestige ones) will need to take calculus in college, if they have not had it before. So a math sequence that looks like you avoided more than the minimum math by taking the off-ramp to statistics after algebra 2 may not give a good impression to an admission reader.
Students who completed algebra 2 and geometry can get high SAT scores.
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I was a math major. In graduate school I took one single elective course outside of my major. It was econometrics (ie, quantitative economics). As a math major and a graduate student, econometrics had me spending a Saturday afternoon to make sure that I fully understood the mathematical underpinnings.
Also, I liked quantitative economics. One thing that I liked a lot is that to me it appears to take economics out of the “this is my opinion, and of course my opinion must be right” into “we can run solid quantitative models and see how well this fits what actually happens in the economy”. I do not understand how investment banking could possible happen without quantitative economic models.
I would expect that Mathematics will be important for an economics major at any Ivy League or equivalent university. I would expect you to at a minimum need calculus, linear algebra, and something in probability theory and/or statistics.
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I think the post was meant to say that there was no specific math requirement to APPLY for an econ major, not that you could get a degree in econ without taking college level math!
Agree that the more math the better for any econ adjacent discipline!
Econ at top schools (which includes the Ivies) is quant heavy. The lack of even a precalc math grade will be a huge negative to your, as most of the successful applicants will have completed AP Calc.
Are you good enough for D1 that an Ivy coach could put in a great word?
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this will somewhat depend on your HS context… are you from a low-income background/rural area or something like that? In that case Admissions Officers may take your high SAT as a sign of potential…and lack of pre-calc as a sign you didn’t know you should take it.
I come from a higher income, very well educated area. At the LPS the top kids (w/o outside instruction) take BC calc as juniors…so only taking Algebra 2 + stats would be behind anyone getting in to a Top 20 (or probably top 100). Ivy’s will look the kids in that context.
I went to an Ivy a million years ago and most people had take AP Calc (of some sort), even then. It was pretty standard.
OP, you never responded on your other thread, but did you apply ED to the school that you “committed” to? Is that school affordable for your family?
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I did not apply ED to the school. I applied EA. After I committed there were a lot of things going wrong with the program that made my family question if it was the right choice.
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Thank you for clarifying the situation.
So…have you notified that coach so they can fill your spot?