Wesleyan's Class of 2028 Profile is Out

HNH
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:20:38 +0000

Thorsmom66:

Most of the students who come on to CC to talk about their self-studying for APs aren’t kids without access to calculus.

Yes absolutely. You often have those who want to accelerate (isn’t there a frequent poster whose kid accelerated by taking calc early, got into MIT, yet parent also somehow advocates on CC against self-study AP’s?)

Thorsmom66:

That is a lot different than kids without access to any rigorous course work or kids who have run through the math curriculum available at their HS.

Or kids who are just interested in math or engineering. As to “rigor”, none of these courses remotely approaches what any scholar would consider rigor. Nor would any math course taken as an undergraduate be considered rigor. In the context of education in Europe, Russia, Asia, especially for math interested kids, all of these courses are non rigorous material presented in a non rigorous way.

So quick on CC to judge any academic ambition as meaningless, actually as a negative. Couldn’t the kid born in Oakland who reaches for the Khan academy and figures out how to take the AP easily have been born in San Francisco and takes Dual Enrollment linear algebra? Doesn’t the Oakland kid think that their extra effort will look good on their college app? Or are only underprivileged kids allowed to consider how something might look on their app? Poor kids can get in on ambition, rich kids are presumed to be grasping, cutthroat automatons right? On CC, wealth somehow turns love of learning into a presumed character flaw.

Data like those from wesleyan and other recent writings quoted on CC really tell a different story.