<p>Hi, I'm going ot be a sophomore this fall, and my counselor and I were making a 4-year plan for my high school classes, and i have enough AP's and was worried about one particular thing, which were my math classes for senior year. Since I took Geometry freshman year, I might have to choose either AP calc or AP stats as my math senior year. Since precalc isn't offered during summer school I'll have to take that junior year (in honors). My counselor might let me take stats as an elective, but I she is not sure..</p>
<p>I want to major in Business Administration or Economics so I was leaning towards stats, but calculus is recommended to get into USC (by my counselor)..</p>
<p>My D took both of them (AP Cal and Applied Stat) this past year when she was a Junior and did just fine. She got 5 for both Cal BC and Cal AB Subgrade. She also got 5 for Stat as well. It really depends on the teachers. If you have good teachers who can prepare you well for AP exams, I don’t think you need to worry. On the other hand, the two classes will be on your last year, so it appears you may not have a lot of an easy time as a Senior. Both classes are good to have for most majors, especially business and engineering. Besides, they are general courses for first year of college, if you get 5 on both of them for AP exams, you can skip or have credits for these general courses, which tend to have a lot of students in each class (easily 150+ student per class in college).</p>
<p>I was in the same math situation as you. I took Geometry freshman year, alg. 2 h sophomore year, and dual enrolled in trig/precal h and stats ap my junior year. I took calc ab ap senior year.</p>
<p>I suggest taking both Senior year. What is really great about these two classes is that Stats is completely different from Calculus- it’s more logical, dealing with probability, bias, chi-square models, intervals, etc. You don’t need calculus to know statistics, and vice versa.</p>
<p>I ended up taking AP Calc BC and AP Stats junior year. It wasn’t too bad. So if you take it senior year, shouldn’t be much of a challenge. But it IS time-consuming.</p>
<p>If you know that you’ll be applying for Business at USC (and it’s your top choice), then I’d recommend Calc over Stat. Firstly, AP Calc is generally regarded as the more difficult class between the two. Also, if you do go to USC for Business, you can pass out of Calc through APs, but to pass out of Stat, you must pass out of BOTH Calc and Stat. Ie, a 4/5 in AP Calc gets you out of Calc, but a 4/5 in AP Stat will only get you out of Stat if you ALSO have a 4/5 in AP Calc.</p>
<p>Take both if you can. You don’t really need calculus for stats, it might help a little bit to understand some more, but you can get the concepts and everything without it. I took both my senior year (my counselor waived the prerequisite of calc for stats). We went through the entire textbook for stats in 2/3 of the year and spent the rest messing around doing “projects.” Basically, AP Stats is very, very, very easy and you can probably handle it fine. Getting a 4/5 on Calc BC can get you out of 2 of the 3 calc classes at USC though (if your major requires them that is)</p>
<p>I do believe a 4 or 5 in AP Calc and AP Stats will place you out of the two math classes required by Marshall (118 & 218). AP Calc alone gets you out of 118, AP Stats alone will only be elective credit.</p>
<p>I would try to do both if you can. Especially for Business major. I took AP Stat my junior year, and BC Calc my senior year. I got a 5 on AP for stat, and like SoCalGal said, getting a 4 or 5 on both Calc and Stat exempts you from Math 118 and 218 for Marshall. So, knowing this, and even though I was in Calc BC, I took the AB AP test and got a 4 on that. SC doesn’t accept the AB subscore on the BC AP test. Now I get to jump straight into business classes my freshman year, without having to take any math for a little bit.</p>