<p>Grcxx3 – forgot that first two years of FL here don’t count as weighted, either, even if taken in MS instead of HS.</p>
<p>2bizee – S1 had no Alg II on his transcript. The colleges figure these things out. The biogger question to investigate is what your school system will do if he only has (officially) two credits of math in terms of graduation requirements (or if they waive that for kids who tracked early). Is there an AP Stat class or other math at a local college he could take? If he’s that good in math, you may need to make some plans, esp. if he wants to major in something later that will be math-intensive!</p>
<p>We need to distinguish between what counts for high school graduation and what colleges expect.
Colleges do not actually expect four years of math. If they did, my S2, who graduated early, would not have been admitted. What they expect is that students at least complete the regular sequence of math which, in high school, covers four years: algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, precalc. More selective colleges expect a more advanced version thereof such as algebra 2, geometry, precalc, calc. If a student happens to have taken Calc earlier than 12th grade, colleges will be happy and won’t demand more unless the student claims to be interested in math and science. The high school may still want the student to take another year of math for the sake of having four years. This is why many students who took Calc in 11th grade take AP stats in 12th grade or take a college course in MV Calc and Linear Algebra. But that is not a college requirement as such.</p>
<p>Incidentally, S2 was required by the high school to complete four years of English, so he had to double up on English in order to graduate early; the 4 years PE requirement was waived. He did take math for only three years, but all in college.</p>
<p>I have to smile at the idea of dropping 9th grade from the transcript. If that were the case, S2 would have had only one year’s worth of grades by the time he applied SCEA in 11th grade.</p>
The biogger question to investigate is what your school system will do if he only has (officially) two credits of math in terms of graduation requirements (or if they waive that for kids who tracked early). Is there an AP Stat class or other math at a local college he could take? If he’s that good in math, you may need to make some plans, esp. if he wants to major in something later that will be math-intensive!</p>