<p>Title says it all... I'm taking AP Calc BC next year as a freshman, so I just wanted to know how uncommon it is.</p>
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<p>this is unheard of at my school people dont take calc b until senior year unless thye take calc 1 over the summer they do it junior year and do multivariable calculus senior year</p>
<p>It would really be difficult to do this in most places particularly because few schools even offer BC. There was an 8th grader in my BC class sophomore year…</p>
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<p>Answer: ~5,548 per year</p>
<p>lol you’re gonna crash and burn. your first high school course and you picked one of the hardest ones. terrible decision</p>
<p>Go for it if you’re up to it. My S took AP Cal BC as a sophomore and did quite well. He aced Linear Algebra last year, and is now on to MV Calc as a senior. What you’re doing is certainly not unheard of, but it’s not common. Unless students are on an accelerated math schedule, students usually get to Calc junior or senior year, if they get there.</p>
<p>Uh a little correction:</p>
<p>In 2008 55,481 students took AP Calc BC. 0.1% of them were freshman. So doesn’t that mean ~55 students took it, not 5,541?</p>
<p>Anyways, it’s definitely pretty uncommon. I know of a couple people who do it on an accelerated track. Some may even take it earlier, like in middle school. But either way it’s pretty rare, so good luck with it!</p>
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<p>Reasons why I’m taking Calculus I and II after BC calculus…</p>
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What?</p>
<p>EDIT: Nvm.</p>
<p>Get out of it… First of all - you don’t want to be placed with (i am assuming) juniors or seniors. So unless there are a handful of people in your school who are doing this, you will look snobby. I have heard of kids in my school who took it sophmore year. Those kids are very rare and need to be extremely smart. </p>
<p>Why are you starting with BC? Are you just that smart, or have you finished Precalc and Calculus I already? It doesn’t make sense even, where will you go sophomore year? Junior Year? Senior Year? The highest level any person should ever be going in high school is Multivariate, other than that it is ridiculous. If you end up in Differential Equations, you will probably need to retake Multivariate again in most colleges, which will not only be annoying to learn something you already know, but also make you slack off (trust me this ALWAYS happens when I learned something I know very well).</p>
<p>Calculus takes A LOT of maturity to look at. You need patience to deal with long and tedious problems, that may not necessarily be hard, but require memorization (like trigonometric identities >_<). </p>
<p>Its a different train of thought and as an incoming freshman, High School is something you need to adjust to. You are still just a kid - take your time and make friends in your classes. Most times the kids in my school who are in upper level classes with older students tend to have less resources because they have trouble asking for help from upper class students. I know this very well - I was one of them.</p>
<p>I personally know 3-5 people who have done this.</p>
<p>It’s great that you’re able to take Calc BC as a freshman. You’ll really stand out as it is so uncommon.</p>
<p>ive never known anyone personally. last year this one kid took it a a junior, though. kinda sucks for him, its the highest level of math at our school. no ap stats or multi var. suckssssssss.</p>
<p>Can’t do it at my school. The VAST majority of schools don’t have programs allow you to accelerate in math like that. We have 3 juniors in BC, and 1 sophomore. But he was our first sophomore EVER.</p>
<p>I am somewhat dubious about only 55 freshmen a year taking calc bc. In my math class, there was like 30 freshmen taking a college math class equivalent to calc bc. And at least a significent number took the bc test too even though they already had college credit for it.</p>
<p>we are lucky to have a charter school where kids are able to accelerate like this along with like-minded classmates. the teachers consider their work as a career not a job and put in a lot of time with the kids. they are amazing teachers and get amazing results (and kids are chosen by lottery not a test etc so everyone works towards achieving their potential)</p>
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<p>Maybe 50% of them are from your school?</p>
<p>clarification: that would mean that in this school they take algebra i as 6ht graders, double up and do geometry and alg II as 7th graders, pre-calc as 8th graders, and then AP calc AB in 9th grade.that track is 1/3 of the students…about 25 kids</p>
<p>^They have to take AB before BC? It seems to me that it would be more advantageous for them to split up geometry and algebra II into two years so they can be solid on the basics. There’s not that much in BC that isn’t in AB. And isn’t 6th grade elementary school? I went to a Montessori school so I’m not 100% sure how normal elementary schools work, but I thought they didn’t have classes, so you couldn’t take Algebra I.</p>
<p>Or did I misread that, because now I’m thinking I did.</p>
<p>in this school district elementary school is K-5,middle school 6-8 and of course high school is 9-12.
in the past a few kids got to go to the high school to take algebra but now they have enough kids that can do the work that they offer the classes in middle school.i would prefer that each class took one year…but they have 2 hours of math/day plus saturday morning and after school tutoring so it seems like the kids do well…they jump through all the state hoops and do well on the hopkins cty sat test…i used to whine that the kids weren’t challenged,but i don’t have that problem at this school!</p>
<p>lol that is insane op</p>