<p>I took algebra 2 my sophomore year and i am now taking calculus bc my junior year. Will colleges see this jump as impressive or is it quite common amongst applicants?</p>
<p>P.S. I haven't taken anything during the summer, i just made the jump.</p>
<p>My school requires precalc before taking AB…</p>
<p>It’s probably not that common, but I doubt it would be especially impressive either. Except that you’ll be able to take more math in 12th grade. I don’t think precalc is especially necessary, but it could help in some ways.</p>
<p>Honestly, they probably won’t even notice.</p>
<p>Pre-calc is necessary if you haven’t learned trig yet. My school taught precalc and trig in the same class whereas others were taught trig in Alg 2. It is very helpful to know trig for calc IMO.</p>
<p>I think the jump most people make is Geometry -> Pre-calc, so yes, your jump is pretty uncommon. I doubt it’s more impressive than the previously mentioned jump though.</p>
<p>Your school actually let you do that without talking Pre-Calc over the summer?</p>
<p>definitely uncommon but how can you go to BC calculus without touching pre-calc? and are you doing well in BC?</p>
<p>Someone at my school took Algebra 1 in 7th, Algebra 2 in 8th, and Calc BC in 9th.</p>
<p>It’s really not a huge jump if you look some stuff up on your own time.</p>
<p>^Yes. </p>
<p>At our school, we’re required to double up freshmen year with Geometry and Algebra 2A + Trig (and some Precalc stuff I think).</p>
<p>“At our school, we’re required to double up freshmen year with Geometry and Algebra 2A + Trig (and some Precalc stuff I think).”</p>
<p>Everyone? Is it a magnet school?</p>
<p>^Essentially. A magnet school with a measly 23 students (21 since 2 dropped out lol) but a magnet school nevertheless.</p>
<p>I could never go to a school with 21 students…</p>
<p>At my school you guys wouldn’t even have a full time teacher for 21 students.</p>
<p>Well, it’s a full time high school and we have our own campus and everything. But our campus is located inside the bigger campus of a school with 300 + students so we have like 12 teachers lol. Besides our elective, language and gym classes we have a different curriculum and everything. Lots of math, science and engineering crap.</p>
<p>Imagine this:</p>
<p>Small school
BIG School
Teachers from big school teach at small school
Students from small school hardly interact with big school unless they do sports (which most of them do so no worries)</p>
<p>Kind of weird, huh?</p>
<p>I couldn’t even imagine going to a school of 300, considering my school was about 10x that size… But I understand what you’re saying.</p>
<p>300+ is not a BIG school, it’s a very small school. 21 is a SMAALLL school.</p>
<p>My HS is ~1800 and I always thought that was small haha.</p>
<p>^300 + / class is a small school?</p>
<p>I’m from Jersey so I thought I knew what I was talking about when I said big school and small school. Apparently not XD.</p>
<p>And TCBH, it’s ironic that you have BIG in normal font and SMAALLL in big font.</p>
<p>Well, you said 300 in your school, not class… I guess I’d say 300/class is probably mid-sized but this conversation is boring so I’m leaving it.</p>