<p>Right now I'm a junior in high school. I'm talking calc AB and I'm doing pretty well (A). I'm looking into being an actuary and majoring in finance so I'm wondering which course(s) I should take next year.
My options are:
1. Take Calc BC online. I've heard it's easy and they let you do partner quizzes but I've never taken an online course before so idk.
2. Take AP Stats at my school with some old lady who has no idea what she is doing.
3. Take both.</p>
<p>Any advice?</p>
<p>Can you take calculus 2 at a local college?</p>
<p>Preparation for actuarial work will involve a lot of statistics courses. AP statistics or a similar introductory level college course won’t be useful as subject credit (the required statistics courses would be calculus-based), but may give you an idea of what statistics is about (although if the teacher is not very good, it may not be too useful).</p>
<p>The problem with taking it at the community college is all the available class times either interfere with my work or school schedule. And it’s about 9 miles away from me, meaning I’m gonna have to pay like $6 a day for gas. So I don’t think I want to do that.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>both unless you think you might not get an A in AP stats because of the teacher and whatnot</p>
<p>Obvious joke - If the CC is 9 miles away and gas is $3.20/gallon and you think it will cost $6/day in gas, I don’t think math is your strong suit, unless the family car is a Ferrari. Try again.</p>
<p>Why do you assume the “old lady” doesn’t know what she’s doing? How do her students do on the AP test? If they get mostly 3+, then she knows what she’s doing, she just may not be “cool”. Get over it, college will be full of “old people” teaching classes.</p>
<p>im a senior and im taking both calc and stat. have no problems with them so far</p>
<p>When applying to business schools to major in accounting and finance, I recommend ap econ, BC calc and stats.</p>
<p>Mr mom: My car gets about 12 mpg and I live in California where gas prices are $4 a gallon. Do the math. The stats teacher does not actually teach, she just assigns book work during class time and often disputes the books answer. When she is answering questions from individual students she always screws up and looks in the book for what to do, and I’ve heard this from tons of people in her class. Get over yourself.</p>
<p>Everyone else: thank you, I’m going to take both and if one doesn’t work out I’ll just drop it.</p>
<p>My teacher is all 3, haha.</p>
<p>12 mpg??? woahh… that’s reallly inefficient, no offence.</p>
<p>It’s also highly unlikely unless there is extremely heavy traffic or the car is in absolutely terrible shape. Or OP has a side job as a stunt driver for Fast and Furious. No normal car, in normal traffic, and normal tune, except for certain exotics, is going to get 12 mpg. And gas is $3.40-$3.60 throughout California right now, not $4.00. (GasBuddy is your friend.)</p>
<p>Let’s just say it appears OP has an apparent tendency to stretch the truth to fit his own reality.</p>
<p>Jsies11 I would take both.</p>
<p>Word of advice, you come on here and ask for advice and then become insulting. Mr mom pointed out what we were all thinking. Facts are facts. Now one may wonder what else you have ‘embellished’. For mr mom who was too classy to respond so let me say, “get over yourself”</p>
<p>Lol. I drive a 1999 Dodge Ram. Not very exotic but it does get 12 mpg. [1999</a> Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 Review | Edmunds.com](<a href=“http://www.edmunds.com/dodge/ram-pickup-1500/1999/]1999”>http://www.edmunds.com/dodge/ram-pickup-1500/1999/)</p>
<p>I just paid $3.73 for gas at the nearest station to my house, so I rounded up to $4. I also rounded the 9.3 mile distance between the college and my house to 9 miles, which is why I wrote that it would be “like $6” a day. Even if you do the exact math, it’s still a $5.79 round trip every day.</p>