What Schools is Daughter Missing?

ucbalumnus
Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:38:21 +0000

eyemgh:

The thing you need to know though is that she’ll be an average engineering candidate at best, at most of the highly rejective schools if she hasn’t had Calc BC and Calc based Physics.

Based on the number of recitations for various MIT math courses in the fall, it looks like the median MIT frosh had a 5 on calculus AB:

18.01, 7 sections, no advanced placement

18.01A, 7 sections, 5 on calculus AB

18.02, 7 sections, 5 on calculus BC

18.022 (more theory than 18.02), 3 sections, 5 on calculus BC

So, while many MIT frosh have advanced placement, it should not be assumed that every one is so advanced that having “only” calculus BC is barely keeping up.