Which is better: UMTYMP or PSEO Math?

MusakParent
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:04:05 +0000

I am a MN resident with a kid in PSEO.

My kids did not do UMTYMP because the schedule is really inflexible. I believe Thursday afternoon after school hours are the hours they meet and if those don’t work for you, too bad so sad. It says that those kids participate in extra curricular activies and I’m sure that they do, but it certainly limits your options. My kids do pretty focused music, theater, dance, etc and the schedule doesn’t work for us at all. I do suspect the support is better for this and you have to be mature and self motivated for PSEO.

In terms of PSEO and math, make sure wherever you do PSEO will allow you to continue with your math sequence. My kid is doing math online separate of PSEO he started because they wanted him to go back to college algebra. The U of MN would have let him start at Calc with his ACT score. Anyway - I think PSEO may be easier to schedule in terms of options if you are planning on doing PSEO in other subjects anyway depending on where you are looking at. I think either could be a good quality option and I don’t think either would be better or worse on a college app.

ETA - I would check out PSEO for programs you are interested in. My kid is a junior and has only taken 2 PSEO classes so far but had excellent professors with PhD’s that were readily available. He got to know either to the point that they would be a good reference letter for college apps. That experience may not be the same at all PSEO options. Including the U of MN. Both my husband and I graduated from the college of science and engineering and those lowest calc classes can be real weeder classes.