<p>My daughter is 2nd in her senior class by a hair. She got her schedule yesterday and is stressing. She feels she is poor in math. This year she asked for Math Topics but got PreAP Calculus. Bottom line: she feels if she takes this class she won't remain in the 10% (one of her top school picks requires 8%). Her other top pick for college requires math her senior year. So my thoughts are: do we try to do Intro to Statstics online through Texas Tech? This would satisfy her math requirement at her target school and look impressive since her ACT wasnt so hot.
She can take it in the evenings at a b&m school except they require a prerequisite of developmental math and that maybe wouldn't look so hot on her application in Nov. (early registration).
Are we digging ourselves deeper by doing this? I suppose if the online class gets clearly too hard she could take a W but you only get 5 of those in your college life now.
My other thought was to take a dantes or clep. The target school wouldn't accept it as a core math credit but shed get 3 credits applied and they'd see she can do the work.
My hesitation there is that they'd like kids to take math all year so they are fresh and don't forget by their senior year.
Opinions, ideas?
To take the easier math class shed have to give up AP3 with her favorite instructor.</p>
<p>If she can’t do well in a precalculus class and you are worried that she will have to withdraw from intro to statistics, are you sure she can handle the rigorous colleges that she is considering?</p>
<p>Well that is the point of having a ranking. Why should your daughter be ranked higher than another student who IS prepared to take a rigorous math. If she wants to look competitive to top colleges the ranking doesn’t matter as long as she attempts taking a higher math.</p>
<p>Well she actually is trying for a scholarship in art. The math will be over once she finishes a core math.</p>
<p>The top 8% is the top 8 %. I know this is all looking pretty weird to me too but it is what it is.</p>
<p>I’ve got an art kid myself who can barely add two and two to get four on a good day, but who has Olympic-class color matching and social skills. Her senior year math class was Consumer Math.</p>
<p>Since your daughter has been placed into the wrong math class, and not into the one that she requested, she needs to march into the guidance office and get that math class changed. If they claim that they can’t change it, she needs to make a pest of herself until they explainjust exactly why it can’t be changed. It may be the only math class that is offered during the only time slot that she’s got free due to her other classes, so chNging the math course may mean rearranging her whole schedule or eliminating another class that she wants. Once she finds out the rest of her scheduling options, she’llbe able to decide if math course outside of her regular school day is worth it to her.</p>
<p>How can one class bring her from being salutitorian to not even being in the top 8%…? Must be a tiny graduating class.</p>
<p>What exactly is “PreAP” calculus? What math has she completed?</p>
<p>Among AP calculus courses, AB is a relatively gentle introduction (covering about a semester of college math in a year), while BC is a full speed course.</p>