<p>I have never done too well in math, and the highest level I'm at is Junior year Calculus.</p>
<p>I will not be going into a STEM major, but Business is a possibility.</p>
<p>Is it important to take another year of Calculus as a Senior?</p>
<p>If you have Calc as a junior you were taking HS math in junior high. You should already have 4 years of math.</p>
<p>It would still help to take more, though. One of the most important parts of your application will be the rigor of your schedule, and they’ll know if you didn’t take the hardest classes you could. If you think you’ll do poorly in the class, don’t take it, since a bad grade in a hard class isn’t going to help you out obviously, but if you just don’t <em>want</em> to take it, it would probably be better to chin up and deal with it.</p>
<p>A lot of students that take Calc AB as Jr’s that don’t intend on going on to STEM majors opt for AP Stats in their Sr year. It is not a fluff class per se, but certainly not a rigorous as moving on to Calc BC. You still have the rigor of an AP and it is not considered ‘slacking’.</p>
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<p>You are two years ahead in math. How is that you got two years ahead in math if you “have never done too well in math”? Normally, only the top students in math are two years ahead, completing calculus as high school juniors.</p>
<p>Completing calculus counts as more than four years of high school math (the fourth level in high school is normally precalculus). If you take another math course, take the next more advanced course (if not offered in your high school, check community colleges) rather than (presumably repeating) the Calculus AB course you were considering in another thread.</p>
<p>Business majors typically need a year of calculus and a semester of statistics (often calculus-based, which disallows AP Statistics). Those emphasizing finance or economics or intending to go to graduate school in economics or a “Masters in Financial Engineering” program may need significantly more math than that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips, everyone, and @ucb for connecting the dots. =]</p>
<p>I took advanced classes in middle school, which is what got me ahead. Perhaps that was more a curse than a blessing because I started dropping off in high school math. That’s why I ended up in regular (non-AP) Calculus my Junior year while most “top students” were doing Calc AB. </p>
<p>I definitely did not realize “4 years of math” takes into account some earlier middle school stuff. I do wish I’d taken AP Stats at some point but I could never fit it in my schedule.</p>
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<p>What is “regular (non-AP) Calculus”? Calculus AB is already slow paced compared to university freshman calculus; is “regular (non-AP) Calculus” designed to be like one semester’s worth of “calculus for business majors”, since that seems to be the only way to have a calculus course less rigorous than Calculus AB?</p>
<p>Guys I only took Alg 1-2 and Geometry which is 3, and I failed pre-calculus the entire year, do you think this would hurt my chances in finance? I understand finance and not stupid graphs like precalc and curves stupid ****</p>
<p>^You should really make your own thread, but yes. Failing anything hurts your chances. In finance you will use calculus (which is what is after pre-calc). You’re in high school, you don’t understand finance, you understand the parts of finance you know. </p>
<p>The 2 years of high school math counted for credit right? So they go towards your 4 year total, it wouldn’t hurt to take a math senior year so you aren’t totally out of math shape for placement exams and such</p>