Need help to make decision for high school math course selection.

<p>To energize : you got a 670 on the SAT I math section and less than 15 on the AMC 8 as an 8th grader, but you confident of qualifying for AIME, then have you done a lot of practice to prepare AMC10/12 in high school? I bet you love math.</p>

<p>To: Kironide :. I am Chinese and my math is strong. But I started to learn Calculus in college, and that is why I cannot image kids in here can learn Calculus in 10th grade. Could you let me know what Calculus text book you used?</p>

<p>To: romanigypsyeyes: She wants #2 path just because she does not want to behind her friends. </p>

<p>To: victoriaheidi: Thank you so much for the advice. I will send you private message</p>

<p>To: energize: I pretty much agree with you. Sometimes, kids just think they can be super in very thing. </p>

<p>To AnonymousAsian: My daughter is a top 1% student in our school district. As she was put in a magnet program in our school district which is highly selected (top 2% students), and she is a top student in that program based on what her teacher told me. We will target highly selected University.
You 1) 2) 3) are the principle we should follow. Thanks for your advice. </p>

<p>To PiNOxX: Even as her mom, I am not sure whether she will handle herself well for take #2 path…</p>

<p>To bpsbgs: You bring a good point I never thought of. She loves writing, and her writing was selected to be published at her school magazine every year. Her SAT score is 2020(M720/R670/R630).
Could you give me an example of amazing English curriculum? My daughter will take AP World history in 9th grade, AP Us history in 10th grade. She will take AP English in 11th grade and AP Lit in 12th grade.</p>

<p>For ECs, she will join sports team, and several other clubs(not decided yet). She will also continue playing piano</p>

<p>I think your daughter should take the second option, especially if she wants to. Calculus really isn’t that hard, and with your daughter’s excellent math scores at her age, she could definitely keep up.</p>

<p>@Kironide </p>

<p>“You are correct in noting that 720 is not a very high score.”</p>

<p>“I scored higher than that on a practice exam when I was an 8th grader. I was one year younger than the rest of the 8th graders, too.”</p>

<p>You misspelled “I am a ■■■■■■.” Twice.</p>

<p>Take the 2nd, harder course.</p>

<p>Kids do that in my (magnet) school.</p>

<p>precalc – AB – BC – 3 (independent study yayyyy)</p>

<p>REALLY stands out for colleges. also, geo and algebra were LITERALLY the biggest wastes of my time.</p>

<p>Pre-Calc is a more rigorous version of Algebra 2, in my opinion. Stats isn’t standard math, so it’s kind of weird to take it before multivariable Calculus.</p>

<p>Just for that reason, I would go with schedule #1, but double up on stats at some point.</p>

<p>9- Algebra 2
10- Pre-Calc
11- Calc
12- Multi/Stats</p>

<p>I was in the same situation in 8th grade. I am by no means a math person, but everyone else was trying to skip our program’s “Integrated 3” course to get into Pre-Calculus, and I wanted to do the same to keep up with them. I studied a bit over summer and managed to get in, along with the rest of my peers. Pre-Calc is a repeat of Integrated 3, and it’s not at all a challenge. I managed to get an A, although to be fair our teacher was sort of lenient on us. But I’m doing fine in Calculus now and all of that. By the by, a 720 Math SAT shows a high level of math competence. I got a 56 on my last PSAT (Granted, I made a lot of careless mistakes). Anyway, point is, my SAT score is worse than your daughter’s and yet I managed to pull out a 4.0 while traveling along that “advanced” course thing your daughter is considering. I think she’d regret it a lot if she stuck to the first sequence. Go for the other one. Anything else would be an insult to her potential.</p>

<p>Can anybody teach me how to edit my original post? Or maybe only webMaster can do it:</p>

<p>I want to change</p>

<p>"Pre Calculus –> Calculus –> Statistics –> Multi Calculus. "</p>

<p>to be</p>

<p>“Pre Calculus –> Calculus & Statistics –> Multi Calculus –> Independent Study”</p>

<p>^^Supergenericman, you don’t happen to go to school in washington…do you?</p>

<p>Also, the difference would be minimal when you apply for college as long as she maintains an all around rigorous schedule all through high school.</p>

<p>Yeah, actually, I do go to Washington. Is there anything special about us? The fact that you knew that makes me rather curious…</p>

<p>I dont know…DANIAL</p>

<p>Apparently, the universe hates me. So what brings you here, anonymous whats-your-name?</p>

<p>Actually, it all makes sense now. You would go here, wouldn’t you… ROHI.</p>

<p>so we meet again my Pakistani compadre</p>