<p>We are in neighboring NJ where nothing is standard; every district has their own way of doing things.....BTW, JPan, I thought NY was going back to the old way of math sequencing i.e. Algebra I, Geometry, AlgebraII etc.?? Is that still happening?</p>
<p>If your school simply doesn't offer it, colleges won't hold it against you.</p>
<p>My school also has few electives until senior year, so IF I take Calc it'll be as a senior.</p>
<p>Yeah, we are going back to the old sequencing, 9th graders this year started with Algebra instead of Math A.</p>
<p>Not everyone gets as far in math as others, and not everyone has an option to take AB or BC (our kids' school doesn't even offer that). You'll still go to a good school, no worries.</p>
<p>My high school wouldn't let you take Calculus BC until senior year of high school, unless you manage to skip out of an earlier math course with summer school. Yet we perennially send quite a few kids to the Ivies.</p>
<p>AB senior year, got into Stanford SCEA wanting to do engineering. In our school, unless you've jumped ahead over the summer taking calc senior year is the best you can hope for.</p>
<p>I'm a senior taking AP Calc AB only this year, and I got into Middlebury ED. There is hope!</p>
<p>Freshman: Algebra 2 Honors
Sophomore: Geometry Honors
Junior: Math Analysis (Precalc + Trig) Honors, AP Stat
Senior: AP Calc AB</p>
<p>Most of our class takes calc senior year. If nothing above is offered, it won't hurt you. We send a lot to Cornell, a couple to Brown, and a few to HYP every year- apparently taking Calc senior year didn't hurt them.</p>
<p>CC does not have random selection of people. (If you go to AoPS basically everyone has taken calc before high school lol :P) I'm betting like 99% of applicants to top schools don't have calc before senior year</p>
<p>^ actually it's around 71%</p>
<p>Fresh - Alg 2
Soph - geom
Junior - AP Calc AB (got 5)
Senior - AP Stats</p>
<p>Would this look weird on transcript because I did not take trig/pre-cal? (I still managed to get an 800 on SAT subject math 2)</p>
<p>I am a senior taking pre-calc and I just got into Cornell ED. It can be done.</p>
<p>I'm taking trig/analytic geometry instead of calc. I took algebra 1 in 8th grade, but they forced me to take it in 9th, then I couldn't take pre-calc in 12th grade because I'm not in the "engineering/auto tech path". My high school doesn't care about students :(</p>
<p>Senior in Calc AB. The high school I started out in didn't allow me to take anything higher than geometry as a freshman, and then I moved here and there are students who started at algebra II as freshmen. (I'm not terribly upset, though; math is not my favorite subject.)</p>
<p>It could be worse, though; I know one poor kid in my class who is very good at math, skipped Algebra II at his old school and is in my class right now and doing very well--and who is being made to take Algebra II ANYWAY because the school requires it to graduate. Ouch.</p>
<p>Calculus is offered for any grade, but I didn't take it until senior year. And I'm proud of it.</p>
<p>Tokenadult--just looking for a place to brag about your kid?</p>
<p>Context, context, context. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.maa.org/columns/launchings/launchings_05_07.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.maa.org/columns/launchings/launchings_05_07.html</a> </p>
<p>There are a whole lot of math sequences young people follow, and admission officers have to deal with all of them when the young people apply to college.</p>
<p>taking calculus BC this year as a senior. I don't think it matters too much as long as you challenge yourself.</p>
<p>I didn't take calculus at all and I'm a senior. I didn't even do pre-calc. I still managed to be in the top 3% of the school. But instead of AP i took classes at the local community college so my classes were based on what major I was interested in. This year I took statistics (and it was only 1/2 a semester since it was through the college)</p>
<p>most ppl at my school go like this:
9th - Geometry
10th - Alg 2
11th - Pre-Cal
12th - Cal</p>
<p>1 year behind ppl:
9th - Algebra
10th - Geometry
11th - Alg 2
12th - Pre Cal</p>
<p>1 year ahead:
9th - Alg 2
10th - Pre-Cal
11th - Cal
12th - OPEN</p>
<p>Me:
9th - Geometry H
10th - Alg 2 H
11th - Pre-Cal H/Ap Stats
12th - Ap Cal</p>
<p>I'm in Vegas and in AP Calculus AB this year. It's the highest math class my school offers and everyone who took it had to take Algebra I H in eighth grade.<br>
(Algebra I H, Geometry H, Algebra II Trig H, and Precalculus H are what everyone took to get into it. Those were all a year each).
About 90% of the kids at my school take regular Geometry or Applied Algebra II as their highest math class, so in comparison to my school I''m really ahead.
I can't imagine being worried about not taking Calc BC sophomore year. :</p>