<p>Is that even seen as worthy anymore among top schools? I mean, I see a lot of people here on CC with like BC by their Junior year...so would taking AB be taken as "this student didn't push himself enough...look at these other kids who got BC down in the same time!" ? :-/</p>
<p>NOTE: I'm not asking for your typical state school, I did say top schools.</p>
<p>Calc AB is the highest math my school offers and is given to only seniors</p>
<p>Pushing yourself is not signing up for every AP under the sun. Pushing yourself is excelling in what you decided to do. </p>
<p>I am pretty sure a top school would much rather have a kid who took classes and got high 90s in them, rather than a kid who took 6 APs one year and scored mid-70s in all.</p>
<p>I'm taking Calc AB as a junior and I am by no means a schoolboy. I'd say it's pretty standard, dude</p>
<p>pushing yourself is getting high 90s in 6 aps actually</p>
<p>If Harvard wants a perfect applicant - It'd be a waste of their time to think of an application type system. It'd be wiser to just invest in robots.</p>
<p>.. Wait. We're talking about Harvard. You best well damn bring a robot to the table, otherwise it's a no-go. Only 6 APs? The ****? Last I checked there are 8 periods in a school day and several hours after school available to self-study. Oh, and as for AB - Yeah. You should have taken that in 2nd grade. Discover a new mathematical theorm. It's the new black.</p>
<p>^ lol.... i take BC and i'm a junior.</p>
<p>I take BC and I'm a junior. But there are only two bells, and the classes are tiny. There are maybe 40 juniors who are eligible to take Calc. Not all of them can take BC, especially since the classes are about half and half, juniors and seniors.
I certainly don't think colleges would look down on taking Calc AB, or any type of Calc, as a junior. In all seriousness, a lot of juniors are not even taking pre cal.</p>
<p>Yeah. I am on the lower end of the stick, for CC at least. I'm only in pre-calc. But, my steady 96 is sufficient. Slightly mad that I only have the 2nd highest average in the class. But, that'll change this quarter.</p>
<p>To my knowledge colleges would prefer an applicant taking the most rigorous courseload available and performing reasonably well over an applicant taking a less rigorous courseload and, uhmmmm, super-excelling. A B in an AP class is looked at more favorably than an A in a regular class.</p>
<p>In response to the OP, it wouldn't make or break an applicant, but it might harm them a little. It also depends quite a bit on the applicants school in its class distribution and whatnot... (as in, if it's really easy to take BC junior year and everybody's doing it, but the applicant is not, then colleges might look down upon that applicant with respect to the same applicant in a setting where taking BC junior year is nigh impossible -- don't compare yourself to people here, as school's differ; compare yourself to the similarly competitive kids at your own school).</p>
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To my knowledge colleges would prefer an applicant taking the most rigorous courseload available and performing reasonably well over an applicant taking a less rigorous courseload and, uhmmmm, super-excelling. A B in an AP class is looked at more favorably than an A in a regular class.
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<p>Say six classes -</p>
<p>Student A:
- 2 APs. B, B+
- 3 Honors - A, A, A-
- 2 regulars - A+, A+</p>
<p>Student B:
- 6 APs - C, C, C, D, B, C</p>
<p>Who's the better student?</p>
<p>Errrrrm, Cs and Ds? Did you read my post? Or do you consider those grades characteristic of someone performing "reasonably well?" I mean srsly, I even specified Bs, haha!</p>
<p>And the correct answer is #3, the 6 AP student with a 4.0 UW, of course!</p>
<p>took bc junior year and it was pretty easy....u should skip ab it's a joke</p>
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Errrrrm, Cs and Ds? Did you read my post? Or do you consider those grades characteristic of someone performing "reasonably well?" I mean srsly, I even specified Bs, haha!</p>
<p>And the correct answer is #3, the 6 AP student with a 4.0 UW, of course!
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<p>Whoa! Hahaha. My bad. Well, yeah. I agree. The B all 6 AP would definitely get it. But, hey. That's for Harvard. God created Princeton for a reason! And, falling down the ladder even further, - Boston University is always there to pick up the rejects of the rejects. If you get rejected by that, or get in without a full scholarship - Just.. go to community college or work at Burger King. Either or.</p>
<p>^lolololool.</p>
<p>I'm the worst- taking Honors Algebra 2 my junior year :O</p>
<p>^GASP you should drop out... srssssly</p>
<p>I think you are fine. Just take BC senior year.</p>
<p>My school doesn't even have BC, so in order to have four years of math, I am forced to take Calc AB in senior year. Don't worry about it. :)</p>
<p>Take what fits your interests. If that's the next step on your math rung, then take it. If it seems too difficult of a jump, don't. Believe me, an A is hard to get in math when you don't grasp it (at least in my math classes, where it's all tests). </p>
<p>And I know a girl who got into Williams last year having taken IB Math Studies, a low (low) level of math. Why? Because she didn't force herself to do something she honestly couldn't do. Instead, she put her energies into an incredible IB Art portfolio, art classes outside of school, Amnesty International, etc... And she was val.</p>