<p>Hi guys! I'm entering my junior year in high school, and next week I have to select my classes. I can either take a third year of Spanish or AP Statistics. What would you recomend? If I take AP Statistics, I will take Spanish next year. </p>
<p>Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>I'm suggesting Spanish, simply because it probably won't do you much good to skip a year in between two language courses. Take stat senior year if you can.</p>
<p>if you're looking at top colleges, it would be better to have 4 years of language. It's also required to have 4 yrs of math at just about all the top schools, but Stats is generally a supplementary math course. It's usually for those who have taken all the AP/honors math courses or those who have moved ahead in math. Generally, it would be geometry, alg 2, precalc, and calc. But I took it last year because I've been ahead in math since 7th grade, and will have taken 5 full year math classes by end of hs</p>
<p>Well for the record, I am taking Honors Precalculus next year also.</p>
<p>just a heads up... honors precalc = death... our math teacher told us it was the hardest math class offered in the school.. yes it surpasses AP Calc</p>
<p>Hmm...it seems like the exact opposite at my school. Everyone says that Honors Precalc isn't hard, but they say that AP Calc is insane with 4-hour long take home tests and such.</p>
<p>see, but thats not true in MOST schools (takecali)</p>
<p>precalc and calculus was the biggest jump in difficulty of any class ive ever taken.</p>
<p>Thank you for the input!</p>
<p>oh idk... a lot of why it's hard for us is because we do a huge (about 1 quarter) unit on trig - HARD trig... idk if this is common at other schools also</p>
<p>Precalculus at my school is mostly a general review over Geometry and Algebra II...with a little bit more in-depth stuff of course. Trig was included in the class (and we spent about a third of the year on it), but that was basically most of the new material we had. Calculus was MUCH harder I think...could have been the teacher though, heh.</p>
<p>Precalc at my school is super difficult, but that's because the teacher is challenging.</p>
<p>well i'm pretty sure the difficulty varies from school to school...
in my school precalc is pretty easy... but Calc is HARRRD... well AB is relatively easy(easy teacher too), but BC is just hard.</p>
<p>our calc and precalc teacher is the same... so I take his word for this like this. And our teacher is super challenging.. he finds ways to trap and trick us... and I fall for them.</p>
<p>i'd say spanish, and then take calc instead. personally stats for me was a complete waste of time</p>
<p>bizzump!!!</p>
<p>yea, you dont learn jack crap in stats</p>
<p>well, if u want it 2 look good on ur college transcript...u kno, if u took an AP course. w/e. dont know. i hate spanish....maybe bcuz i hav the worst knack of learning languages ever. lol.</p>
<p>wow i heard the opposite, i heard that AP stat was really useful! again, dunno.</p>
<p>Well, the first bit is on probability which many students already know. Maybe you can sharpen those skills and learn 1-2 new types of probability problems. The things like confidence intervals and hypothesis testing and sampling are good if you are gonna be a statistician (sp?) or maybe if you do extensive population studies for research, but otherwise it's pointless.</p>
<p>AP Stats is the biggest waste of a period I'm taking this year. I swear we don't accomplish anything in that class. But maybe that's because pretty much all the other people in the class are just taking this class because they didn't want to take math beyond Algebra 2. Hooray for having AP Calc, too</p>
<p>But yeah, stick with Spanish. A lot of colleges require that you have 3 years of a language, and then they'll recommend 4. And believe it or not, even if you're just taking a year off of a language, you'll forget a toooon. Especially if you've only taken 2 years of it to begin with... I took 3 years of Spanish (taking German 1 during my junior year with Spanish 3) and I dropped Spanish this year to just continue on with German 2 and I have forgotten so much of my Spanish. So if you plan on continuing in Spanish, it's pretty crucial that you don't take a year off.</p>
<p>I write entirely too much sometimes.</p>