<p>I am here to learn about the college admissions process and share my opinion where I want. You can disagree (but reading your post, I don’t think you do), but I don’t think that a moderately unfortunate experience for one child (1 C in calc) should translate to: oh, accelerating in math will stop my child from being NMF. So we can’t do it, end of story. Which is just plain not true. I will reiterate that it is unfortunate that your children received 1 too many Cs to get NMF. But as we discussed in the other thread, that does not mean “AP tests are evil” “accelerating in math is evil” “NMSC is evil” and all these other ridiculous things. MAYBE, instead of saying “oh it’s too difficult lets just quit and scrape by with the minimum” the parent could say “it’s difficult, but it should be a fun challenge. If you feel overwhelmed let me know and we can try tutoring, and you can always drop back.” Really, what sort of example is being set by effectively telling your child, 5 years in advance, that you don’t think she can be successful in Calculus? Come on now.</p>