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<p>And this needs to be the case because many small or rural high schools do not have the resources to offer calculus. On the other hand, the competition is stiff enough that students from urban or suburban high schools usually have calculus available, and woe be the STEM applicant who didn’t take the class that was available.</p>
<p>This is not unlike many gifted or magnet programs; the ones who get in, because of all the competition, are the ones who will, in general, be taught below their natural learning speed.</p>