<p>Ok so here is the situation. I am a current sophomore at a fairly small and lacking high school in the rural south. I have high aspirations, this I will admit, I hope to be accepted to and one day attend UPenn. Less than twenty minutes from my home is a very nice, very well respected high school that I have finally convinced my parents to let me attend for my junior and senior years of high school. It is already a very positive move in all of my classes when compared to my current school, but I can't help shake the feeling that it could be better in the area of math I am to take. Pre-Calculus Honors for my junior year. At my CURRENT school, this would a standard and accepted class for a top-ranking junior, yet THERE at my future school, the top ranking students often have Pre-Calc in their sophomore year and take AP Calc BC junior year....I am now in Algebra 2 Honors....I sleep at my desk and make a high A in there...it's like numbers talk to me or something. I know I should be extremely grateful (and I am) for all the benefits and opportunities that the move provides me (up to 10 AP classes without Calc THERE as opposed to at most 4 AP classes at my current school) but if I'm going to pay tuition to go there then I kinda want to get the most out of my experience if that makes any sense. In my mind, it is like paying for a class that I can already take. Along with this, many if not all of the other students in my other classes THERE will most likely be in the AP Calc class and honestly I don't want to be left out. I am very good at math and know that I could easily excel in AP Calc if given the chance and a summer to study over Pre Calc books (which I have and have already begun looking over). So my question is this, how can I convince my future counselor,who I have only met once, that skipping roughly a year to a year and a half of advanced math could in any way, shape, or form be a positive thing for a new transfer student such as myself?.....other suggestions are also appreciated and gladly as well. Thank you for listening to my "wonderful" and "dramatic" story and I hope to hear back from you :)</p>
<p>I would recommend just taking an online course. BYU has one, it’s pretty cheap. Also FLVS has an honors one but it is more expensive (unless you live in FL). Either would be an official course so she wouldn’t have to trust that you studied it- she’ll have proof.</p>