<p>i believe ya!
rural HS and urban HS are SOOOO different! I wish I cud stay in my prev rural school and ace that like hell! :p
In my rural school I never got a single grade less than A+! Now....eh, A is the most desirable thing! (B is a common occurrence! I guess College will be not as difficult for me though if I graduate from my urban highly accelerated school)</p>
<p>Heh,
outside of school, some people say "you're in Alg 2 freshman year? wow!!!" but at my school, there are students studying 4-5 years ahead, etc. I personally enjoy math, but I'm not very accelerated by my school's standards. So, I just head in the "enriched" direction, as in having exposure to a wide variety of mathematical topics, instead of speeding way ahead in school curriculum.</p>
<p>People online don't always realize that it can be very hard to get ahead in math depending on where you are.
In my county this is the best you could do:
Private middle school and end up starting high school at pre-cal...
then by the end of high school have Differential equations done.</p>
<p>My Community college doesn't offer any higher than Differential... so I'm screwed if I don't get into NCSSM.</p>
<p>There's an 8th grader in my online Algebra II class who's already had Geometry, Pre-cal, Algebra I.
But it just isn't possible in a smaller town to offer that many math classes. There's not actually anywhere else I could go anyway... </p>
<p>If you were going to start with calculus in the 9th grade, they would just skip you several grades.
There is no point in having someone get a recommendation from all their teachers showing them to be in the top 1% of like 7 categories, getting a recommendation from the principal... getting a recommendation from the board of education, paying for an achievement test and an aptitude test, having your parents have to be with you the entire day, and having an interview with the president of the community college, just to take calculus early. Because that's what I would've had to done to get any further ahead in math.
Not to mention then having to pay college tuition... activity fees, book fees...</p>
<p>Plus it depends on what order you have to take the courses...
It is easier to get to Algebra II if you have to only have Algebra I before it... where I live you have to have Algebra I and Geometry... and some places are just plain stupid. (See what the 8th grader had to take.)
I assume that some places you may take algebra I/Geometry or Algebra II/Geometry concurrently.
But anyway... it's 4:45 am. Goodnight/goodmorning
Pax et bonum,
James Crowe</p>
<p>Good lord, this thread is back?</p>
<p>My CC offers nothing higher than Calc II. Beat that.</p>
<p>My school is so lame. They have hardly any Honors classes after Sophmore year.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as an honors Chemistry, Physics, Bio, or any other science. There is no honors US History.</p>
<p>So basically in Senior year, you are stuck between taking college prep or AP. Junior year was okay, I took AP Bio, Math Analysis (pre-calc) Honors, English 3 Honors. That was a pretty smooth schedule.</p>
<p>But this year if I wanted to take classes harder than college prep, this is what my schedule would be:</p>
<p>AP Calc
AP English
AP Econ/Govt (which I'm already taking)
AP Physics (i'm taking anatomy though)
Spanish 3 (didnt take it freshman year)</p>
<p>I don't need to take that many AP's and it would ruin my GPA if I did.</p>
<p>Well, JBVirtuoso, you also happen to live in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>I took the equivalent of Algebra 2 at my school as a freshman, then tested out of pre-calculus over the summer. I get a uniformly shocked reaction every time someone asks.</p>
<p>I'm not really in the middle of nowhere. Wal-Mart's only 10 minutes away. Hehe...</p>
<p>Well my school only offers through Integrated Math IV. But then we go to the community college through a state exemption. (I'm taking online math. Which means I'm taking Algebra II, Pre-cal and the like.)</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore and I'm in Algebra 1. Haha. And the best part is, I'm considering going for an engineering degree.</p>