<p>I'm considering signing up for them in the same year (next year). Now, I am an exceptional math student, the type that gets straight As and will get a 700+ on the Math SAT guaranteed. Unfortunately, my school doesn't offer BC, so I figured another AP in my strongest subject would even things against other applicants that would have taken BC. Would AP Calc AB+ AP Stat have the same bearing as Calc BC? Also, what type of math would be covered in each of these? My guess is that Calc is more analysis of graphs, physics-type problems, and AP Stat is just plug-and-chug. Is this right?</p>
<p>Stat is remembering bunch of crap, conditions, and the right words. It is not math at all.
If your school does not offer BC, take it at the local university in your senior year.</p>
<p>Stat is remembering bunch of crap, conditions, and the right words. It is not math at all.
If your school does not offer BC, take it at the local university in your senior year.</p>
<p>The AP Calculus book contains all of the BC material as well as the AB material. You can self-study the additional material in your free time and request that the teacher or school order you a BC Calc test. You’ll take it in the same room, but off in a separate corner. No final decision needs to be made until maybe April, before the school’s AP test-ordering deadline.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t have any trouble also taking AP Stats the same year.</p>
<p>AP Stats, so far any way, isn’t math based at all. It seems more like an memorization based course (kind of like APUSH?). </p>
<p>If you take AP Calc AB at your highschool you can just sign up for the BC exam. There are only about 5 new concepts you need to know, which if your that good at math, you can learn in about a week.</p>
<p>So what is AP Stat then? ON a side note, I took my PSAT today. Think I did well, hopefully well enough to qualify for the NMS (or at least get commended 
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<p>Stat is definitely math-related but all the pre-requisite skills that you will need are from Algebra Part 1. It’s hard to describe what the curriculum is like to someone who hasn’t taken the class because the subject matter is very different from anything you probably have taken in the past. Like others have said, Stat is pretty much just memorization, probability and calculator functions.</p>
<p>From what you have described, I would say that you and I are very similar. 770 Math SAT, 800 Math 2 SAT Subject Test</p>
<p>I took AP Stats and AP Calc AB during sophomore year and got a 5 on both with no trouble.
AP Calc is all algorithms and knowing that this word means to do this.
AP Stats is more of looking at the whole situation and deciding which test to do.</p>
<p>There is memorization that you need to do for both. AP Calc you memorize formulas. AP Stats you memorize test conditions. In stats, though, you can use the calculator alot more than you can in AP Calc. (& It isn’t like a “oh I’m great at math I don’t need a calculator” thing. It’s that the calculator gives you test result values that you yourself would struggle doing by hand. It is much like trig or logs. Sure, you can do them by hand/referencing a book full of charts but it is easier to use a calculator.)</p>
<p>^^^thanks. I have decided to take both, and I’ll probably study the BC stuff on my own.</p>