<p>I'm currently a freshmen in high school in California. I am currently taking Geometry Enriched. If I continue down with this path I will end up in AP calculus in my senior year. The problem is, most of the freshmen here right now are taking Alg/2 trig and will take AP Stats by their senior year. I was wondering if not taking AP stats during my senior year would be a problem for me and my college applications. And should I take a summer school for Alg/2trig so I can take AP statistics by my senior year and take AP calc my junior year? I'm not good with alg btw.
I want to get into UCLA or UC berkeley.</p>
<p>PS: If this is the wrong place to post, please tell me where I should post it. I'm new here. Thanks!</p>
<p>ap calc junior year is to your advantage, only if get an a and a 4 or 5 on the exam. its better to take ab junior year and bc senior year and forget stats altogether. stats is not nearly as reputable as calc.</p>
<p>If you have room in your schedule, you can take AP Stats your junior or senior year - you don’t have to have Calc before it.</p>
<p>In our school Ap stat isn’t even considered math course its an elective. Stat isn’t that important.</p>
<p>I’m agreeing with the above posters. When I think about it now, most top colleges don’t accept AP Stats scores for transfer credits. Not sure why, but it’s probably because of the broad variety of content that the course covers or something else (I haven’t taken the class). But you should definitely choose whatever you find more interesting/appealing. </p>
<p>On your idea of taking a math course over the summer, which is what I did to place into calc as a junior, do it. It’s like getting a full-year course done over 1-2months, and even if you don’t place out of that class, you’ll be prepared for the next year of math.</p>
<p>It is because most stats are just elementary stats, and colleges wont accept them.</p>
<p>AP Statistics is not just ‘elementary’ stats.
Taking AP Calculus in your junior year will certainly be to your advantage.</p>