For recent Georgia Tech admits, what was the highest HS math you completed?
DS is currently a 3rd year EE major and the highest level of math he completed was BC Calc in Junior year of HS. Our HS didn’t offer any higher courses, and we looked into community college or online for Linear Algebra/Multi for his senior year, but decided against it. Senior year in HS he took AP Stats.
S24 (Electrical Engineering admit) is in BC Calc at the moment. Took AP Stat in 10th grade.
Son completed AP CalBC in 10 th, multivariable in Junior year ( Dual enrollment)and Linear Algebra from community college in Junior year Summer.
S22 did Dual Enrollment Differential Equations and Linear Algebra in his Senior year.
I did honors trig/precalc as a freshman, calc AB as a sophomore, calc BC and AP Physics C Mechanics (more of a science class, but still heavily math based), and AP Stats and multivariable calculus as a senior. The multivariable calc class is online through Johns Hopkins CTY. Also, as a senior I am taking AP CS A, which my school considers a math class instead of a science class.
I was accepted EA2 for mech e.
My freshman son completed BC Calculus as a senior. He was admitted last year for EA Mechanical Engineering. BC Calc is a senior class at our high school. The only other higher level math offered is Multivariable but he did not take that as it conflicted with his schedule. Some kids take that concurrently with BC Calc as a senior. A very small (less than 5 typically) take BC Calc as a junior because they transferred in as a higher math level so they are a grade ahead. These kids take Multi as seniors. School does not offer/allow dual enrollment during the school year.
Typically at our high school BC Calc is required for admission to Georgia Tech. Multivariable is not. Over the past several years those who opted for AB Calculus over BC Calculus (it is one or the other - people don’t take both at our school) were not admitted.
Basically, I think they want you to take the highest level math offered to have the best chance of admission. Rick Clark has addressed this.
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TY! My son is taking AP Calc BC as a sophomore and planning on DE Calc3 & Diff EQ next year which is taught at school. My dilemma is for senior year. He can either take linear algebra through our state university or AP stats @our school. He wants to do linear algebra but wondering if this is too much
If he wants to take it for credit then let him take Linear Algebra. Georgia tech won’t give credit for AP stats. If you are a Georgia resident then I think he will get credit for Linear Algebra if he takes it from any Georgia CC or state college. We are from CA so my son didn’t get full credit for linear Algebra. He had to take it again but it was an easy A because he had already covered all the topics. I think Georgia tech has transfer equivalency table where you can check if he would get the credit for that course. But since he is still in high school and you don’t know where he will end up going, this table might not help as it’s specifically for Ga tech.
Most of the colleges I know usually don’t give credit for AP stats but will give credit for Linear Algebra.
My son did AP stats in Junior year in school and did Linear Algebra in Junior year summer. So if your son does well in Calculus BC and multi variable then I think he will be able to do linear Algebra in summer too.
Linear algebra makes sense given the context of the rest of his math courses. If he wants to take statistics, it may be more worthwhile to take calculus-based statistics instead of AP statistics.
But taking courses at local colleges could involve more commuting and scheduling issues to work through.
TY for your response!
My student took Calculus AB + BC his junior year (our school system is on 4x4 block scheduling,) and did Georgia Tech distance math (dual enrollment) senior year taking linear algebra and multivariable calculus.