Could be that the “same math class to start” was calculus 1, with the following students:
Students who completed up to precalculus in high school.
Students who took a calculus course that is less rigorous than AP calculus in high school.
Students who took AP calculus but scored poorly on the AP test, so they did not get advanced placement.
Students who took AP calculus, scored well on the AP test, but felt lost when looking at the college’s old calculus 1 final exam.
Students who took AP calculus, scored well on the AP test, but followed forum conventional wisdom (which I do not agree with) to unconditionally repeat their AP credit.
Students who took AP calculus, scored well on the AP test, but repeated their AP credit for grade grubbing purposes.
Sure but I thought the poster implied that all the kids started at Calculus 1 which is not true, as I know students that went straight into linear algebra or differential equations as a freshman at an ivy.
The previous poster did not say that all frosh with high school calculus AB or BC started in (presumed) calculus 1, just that there were some frosh with high school calculus AB or BC who started in (presumed) calculus 1. Other frosh with high school calculus AB or BC presumably started in more advanced math courses.
Sure, let him change. Why torture himself with a teacher he doesn’t like and in a class he won’t be learning anything? If you are paying for a private tutor, why not just do it as an independent study?
My daughter went to college without AP calc of any flavor, and yes her school did offer AB/BC but she’d transferred to this school and was a year behind in math sequence. Didn’t hurt her applications, didn’t slow her down in college.