<p>I go to a rather good public school that is also near several excellent colleges–assume that I will never run out of math to take and my science curriculum will be built around the math courses I’m taking simultaneously.</p>
<p>Precognition, that absolutely sucks, what happened to you! My problem, I’ll admit, isn’t quite that dramatic.</p>
<p>“Why do you think that’s the fault of the public school system? If you don’t demonstrate to people that you’re gifted at math, it’s not everyone else’s fault that you don’t get placed in advanced courses.”
They don’t place you based on how quick you are at math. They place you based on how much math you KNOW. That, I think, we can blame on the system.</p>
<p>Do you think NOT skipping a year would make me seem less motivated about math than I actually am? Math is like, my passion. (Well, I have lots of passions. But math is up there with art and music and theater)</p>