<p>Will it give me more of an upper hand in admission to wharton if i take it junior year as opposed to senior year. </p>
<p>I started out freshman year in algebra (A) I then took geometry (A-) over the summer and was in algebra II/Trig Honors (A) now i'm takin pre-calc over the summer (probably gettin an A) and will matriculate into AB/BC calc Junior year. What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Honestly, it will probably not make a huge difference. I took bc my junior year and was accepted ed this year, but i know a buncha people in the same position (math-wise) who werent as fortunate in admissions. The only thing I would worry about is whether taking so many summer courses has actually hurt your math education in the long run.</p>
<p>doesn't matter when you take calc as long as you take it.</p>
<p>Taking both AB and BC Calc in the same year is pointless anyway, because you can only take one of those AP exams per year.</p>
<p>BC calc is AB calc plus some stuff at the end (series). By taking the BC, you automatically get an AB subscore.</p>
<p>I don't even understand why the wharton people make calc. sound that important if they aren't even required to take past 104 ( which in my opinion is BS, they should at least do 114).</p>
<p>114 used to be required (long time ago) but they had to cut something out to move in other stuff. Now, they teach the relevant parts of 114 in the Wharton classes that need them</p>
<p>Yeah, if getting into wharton was based on the level of your high school math courses, I would've been accepted, not deferred ED :(</p>
<p>oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, it sounds sensible though, because some wharton courses seem to require pretty hcore math. I was looking at the math major in CAS and they accept Finance 235 (fixed income securities) I think, as one of the math major cognate electives.</p>
<p>That's a reflection of incentives - they do that to get more students to pull in a minor. FNCE 235 is very different from the math major classes, or the cognates in stat or stat-like classes.</p>
<p>That makes sense. You seem to know a lot about the whole math situation. Do you recommend I stick to electives from the math dept for my math electives, or might it be better to branch out and take classes like FNC 235. I'm already going to take Stat 430, 431 as two of my electives, because I'll need them for econ too.</p>