When taking calc as a senior was actually considered "smart"

SteelTrapMindset
Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:11:20 +0000

At my school, most of the “average” kids take Math Analysis (Between Precalculus and Calculus), AP Statistics, or AP Calculus AB. The “below average” kids take a lower level or remedial level of math such as Precalculus or Advanced Topics. Those who are “above average” take AP Statistics, AP Calculus BC, or Multivariable Calculus at a community college.

However, there is a freshmen not at my high school, but at a different high school who went to one of my school’s “feeder” middle schools. She came to my school each day to take Precalculus in 8th grade, and already took AP Statistics in 7th grade. As an 8th grader, she beat every (then) freshmen and sophomore on the AMC 10 with a score of 117. Our high school is non-IB, but the school she is now at is an IB school. She is probably taking either AP Calculus BC or IB Math HL as a freshmen. But that is probably the most extreme case that I’ve heard of at my high school or any of those in this area.