How many people actually take multivariable calc in high school?

preamble1776
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:15:40 +0000

At my school, Calculus BC is about 60% seniors, 40% Juniors - the majority of those Juniors will either take AP Stats their senior year or they will abandon math altogether, even if they are planning on pursuing a STEM field in college. We even have a partnership with the local community college where we can take multiple courses for free at our school (which is a satellite campus for the CC) and still, not many students advance onto college-level math beyond BC. I know of just two kids (both of whom are seniors) that are taking Calc III at the college, and that’s it. They’re high achieving, much more so than the typical high achieving student, so they’re definitely anomalies.