<p>It's not about getting ahead, or making money. If math is too easy for you why don't you skip a few years? What's wrong with that?</p>
<p>We used to be surprised when we didn't find a teacher at D school who is not a PHD or not from Ivies or Stanford or other good college.</p>
<p>Teaching is a passion and many Ivies student go to High Schools for teaching. Last I checked Columbia was the best for Master in Teaching something.</p>
<p>Back to the D school How much you think a High School teacher gets at D school? You will be surprised to know that on top of that they get tution break for their kids.</p>
<p>But that is not the point; I think we lost the point and I'm over it.</p>
<p>UCDAlum - post of the day! LOL!</p>
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Any student who take AP Calculus AB at D's school is not considered intelligent. Most intelligent students at D's school take Ap Calc BC in 10th grade
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<p>"Calc BC in 10th grade" as the new measure of "intelligence"? I feel very sorry for that school... (Disclaimer: do not want to sound like I'm bragging, but to make sure I'm not bashing math wizards here, I too got As in college-level math well above Calc. BC in 10th grade, but I would not call myself extra intelligent because of that, and after quantum physics in college that math was told bye-bye).</p>
<p>My daughter plays field hockey at an Ivy League school. She was recruited and has played all 4 years--usually a starter. I can tell you that most of these kids who play college sports (at any college) started their sport in middle school and most definitely played all 4 years in h.s. They went to summer camps, Festival, Jr. Olympics, and other developmental programs. If your daughter is an excellent soccer player and played varsity most of her h.s. career then some schools would look at her for field hockey if they like her skills. </p>
<p>Maybe she would enjoy playing intermurals at her school of choice. I think that is more realistic.</p>
<p>My student wound up with substantially the equivalent of a math minor at a public HS. Took BC Calc as a 14 yo 10th grader. Had a total of nine semesters of Calc BC and higher math. Was told by a top LAC that they'd love to have my student, but that they didn't have enough course offerings for someone with that much prior coursework. </p>
<p>My student is not unusual for this school.</p>
<p>My student's math teacher gets asked by his college colleagues all the time why he doesn't join them in teaching at the university level. His reply: "I teach the same courses you do -- only I teach them to 16 and 17 year olds who WANT to take these classes."</p>
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<p>This thread is getting more and more bizarre.</p>
<p>UCDalum - great minds thing alike! LOL!
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<p>Ahem - if teaching was such a passion - this brilliant and passionate folks should not have any problem going into our inner cities and rural areas to help the more economically disadvantaged kids learn. You know the only way to significantly raise the bar is to raise the lower half.
I suppose though -teaching at a prep school is way more satisfiying and fun.</p>
<p>ctkathy: thanks for your post - you said in one post what I was beating my head against the wall in 4 or 5 posts!</p>
<p>^JustAMomof4, good one :). </p>
<p>This is the most bizarre thread ever! From field hockey to AP Calculus???
Crazy, crazy and only on CC!!</p>
<p>In my son's school (a public magnet) there are quite a few kids in Calc BC in 10th grade, and many more take it in 11th. They offer Multivarible Calc, and maybe a couple of other advanced courses. But quite a few kids (including mine) choose not to take math senior year. Depending on the path, getting to BC before senior year doesn't necessarily mean that the kid is a math whiz.</p>
<p>JustAMomOf4 :"Ahem - if teaching was such a passion - this brilliant and passionate folks should not have any problem going into our inner cities and rural areas to help the more economically disadvantaged kids learn. You know the only way to significantly raise the bar is to raise the lower half.
I suppose though -teaching at a prep school is way more satisfiying and fun."</p>
<p>I refer to passion for teaching not passion for reforms. You want to teach students who are interesting in learning. Hence the reference in one post that it might be more self satisfactory for a teacher to teach at prep school than even at some public universities as they can really get students who are interested in learning.</p>
<p>Yes, if some one is passionate about reforming then they certainly will go to inner city to reform.</p>
<p>Hunt: “Depending on the path, getting to BC before senior year doesn't necessarily mean that the kid is a math whiz."</p>
<p>True; by taking harder courses earlier you cannot prove that you are genius but you are trying to show that you are mature enough to handle tough courses and challenge yourself. I think that is what makes the differences. Many perfect SAT1 scorers got denied admission just because they fail to challenge themselves. By taking a Calculus BC in 10th grade a student had shown that they are not afraid of hard working with respect to other who actually in a position to take Calc BC actually take Calculus AB followed by Calculus BC.</p>
<p>The point of all this is to project to the Universities that you can handle tough courses. We have seen many valedictorians of the neighborhood schools that get admissions to top schools but then struggle because they are unable to adjust to the course load while many of the above average students at prep schools fly by college years as they have been prepared well thru 4 years of rigorous high school curriculum.</p>
<p>Why don't we stop this thread. It has digressed from unrealistic Ivy league athletic recruitment chances from a father who has a lot to learn about the college process to one in which this same father has tried to show us all how his daughther is so much smarter than the rest of the students in the US. There is no way that you can compare two different high school. apples to oranges! That is the adcoms job.<br>
ParentofIvyHope, give it a rest. Everyone thinks that their child is the best, the smartest, the most athletic, the most gifted.... Great! That is a parents job--unconditional love and acceptance. Will you love your daughter any less if she was rejected from all the Ivies and elites that she applies to? Stop trying to give your daughter a hook. ADcoms can spot it a mile away!! Let her find her own passion and enjoy her high school years or you may regret it later on.</p>
<p>Will let it die, but as pointed out those kids that are "intellegnet" and slid through school with no studying are often the ones that crash and burn once in college</p>
<p>they don't the skills needed when the going gets tough</p>
<p>that being said, maybe she can do curling or something to stnad out</p>
<p>Probably should have made the decision to commit some time ago. Joined a good travel team. They will recruit very good kids, sound like you are not quite there yet.</p>