<p>So I did my scheduling for next year already but have a couple weeks to potentially change it. I am currently in honors pre-calculus where I generally pull a mid to high B. I signed up for AP Calculus AB for next year (BC is not offered), but I am thinking about switching to AP Stats. I have talked to my current math teacher and she thinks that despite my grade I would struggle in AP calc and would need a tutor all year, but would do better in stats. I would like to take normal calc but that is not an option if I want to maintain rigor. I am an intended neuroscience major who is intended to also be pre-med. Also if I just need some exposure to calc before college I am okay with just taking a summer calc class before I go to college. As for grades I think I would pull an A in stats, but would probably get a B or C in calc. Oh and here is my schedule for next year...
- AP English Literature
- AP European History
- AP Biology
- AP Calc AB/AP Stats (still have to pick)
- Yearbook (I am next year's editor)
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Drawing 4
- Painting 4
- Fiber Arts 4
- Art History 4</p>
<p>Basically how much of a negative impact would stats have on my college prospects (I am applying to Swarthmore ED/other selective LACs RD if I don't get into Swarthmore)?
Thanks in advance/sorry this was so long!</p>
<p>Your user name, your course schedule, your activities and the fact that you’ve posed this question actually make me wonder what’s up with neuroscience and medical school. Whose idea are those things?</p>
<p>Lol, my idea (no pressure from my family). I go to a magnet school for creative and preforming arts where I major in visual arts (hence the schedule), it is a choice I made in 8th grade (I did not plan on switching high schools when I realized I wanted to go into science). I do love art (I will probably end up minoring in it), I just don’t want to spend my life doing it/I am strangely obsessed with neuroscience (fairly newfound obsession that started when I took DE psych, before that I thought I would be a bio major)…</p>
<p>Any ideas on the calc vs. stat?</p>
<p>I hate to bump…but please help!</p>
<p>Brutal schedule. Can you drop a few electives to concentrate on Calc?</p>
<p>And yes, you are correct. “Struggling” for a B in HS is much, much better than ‘struggling’ in college Calc, where the same effort might earn you a C. Unlike HS, colleges usually don’t offer the AB pace; instead, all of that material is rolled out in 10/15 weeks. (AB is essentially half of the sequence, and I have absolutely no idea why a HS would offer AB and not BC.) Save Stats for the ‘easier’ A in college</p>
<p>Also note, that Neuro is gonna require Calc, Chem, and perhaps Physics, depending on the neuro-focus – all math-all the time. Are you sure that is your goal?</p>