Advanced freshman math, the kind for the top few students, varies extremely widely. As far as I can tell, if you made it all the way through the series at Harvard or Stanford, then you are an excellent student regardless of whether you get a good grade. I’m sure a couple other schools are like that. Many schools that you might expect to have similar classes don’t.
Sadly the universities with courses like this seem to me mediocre at advertising that, no, if you are not specifically very very good at math (and very very good at following a very fast paced course and you don’t have a strong background), then that’s not the class for you and you should be in the other honors math class.
Sadly the universities with courses like this seem to me mediocre at advertising that, no, if you are not specifically very very good at math (and very very good at following a very fast paced course and you don’t have a strong background), then that’s not the class for you and you should be in the other honors math class.