My D19 didn’t take AP Calc senior year. She took AP stats. She didn’t get into elite schools, but she got the top of the range merit at the school she is at now.
She is majoring in Biochem/PreMed. Her thought process was that she would have a tough time with Calc so she took Stats. She figured that she would have more time freshman year of college to study Calc compared to senior year of HS. This is true because she is not working in college and not doing college applications right now. Plus she passed the AP Stats test and it was a class she would need for one of her majors.
Did not taking Calc hurt getting into the elite sure maybe, but realistically we would not been able to afford to send her to a need-based school.