<p>I saw this thread on the parents' forum and it makes me kind of nervous. I transferred at the end of my junior year. At my old public school, I would've been placed into Calc BC in my senior year. However, at my new private school, AB is a prerequisite of BC. For various reasons, I wasn't able to take a calculus class the summer of my junior year(I had other activities). Unfortunately, very unfortunately, this year I am in AB. </p>
<p>How will colleges(i.e., ivies) see this??</p>
<p>I don't think anyone will care. Sure, you may not be at the top of the math pile anymore, but you are a transfer student and they will probably consider that.</p>
<p>Yeah I don't think it'll make a difference, schools usually send a school profile with your application that explains stuff like that. Plus Calc AB is not a bad class and people get accepted to top schools without BC and without Calc at all.</p>
<p>There is absolteuly nothing wrong with AB - Calculus on any level is a difficult and rigorous course. By no means do you have to be that ahead in your courses to get into top colleges - AB should be fine, as that's what most competitive seniors take anyway, as far as I know.</p>
<p>Will colleges understand not taking Calc BC b/c of schelding reasons? I have the prerequisites for both but at my school, BC is a two period class while AB is only one so I will take AB so I can fit in my seven sciences.</p>
<p>The AP courses are supposed to be a standard curriculum, but the high schools take alot of liberties. Sometimes courses will be double periods and othertimes they won't. Sometimes Calc AB is a pre-req for Calc BC, and othertimes it isn't. Sometimes only half of AP Physics C is taught in the course (the Classical Mechanics part, but no E&M). This type of thing doesn't really matter in admissions. The main thing is to have AP's so that you are taking the most challenging curriculum at your high school. In transferring between high schools, it doesn't appear that you were hurt.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter. But take the Calc BC exam if you feel you have some level of mastery with AB. Calc BC offers a whole year credit of math and yet its only really, just a 5 week extension of calc AB.</p>
<p>Calc AB covers differential calculus and Calc BC covers both differential and integral calc. In college, there is a three course sequence: Differential Calc and Integral Calc in freshman year and Mulitvariable Calc in sophomore year. Of course, in high school you are taking a course for the entire year and in college, a course is only a semester long.</p>
<p>In terms of an AP credit, some colleges will give you credit for the first course, and other colleges have more advanced (harder) versions of the courses for people who got AP credit and want to signup for it.</p>
<p>My understanding is that AB or BC depends on potential college major. Most majors require little or no calculus (or very little math at all), so passing the lower AB course could eliminate most college math requirements with a 4 or 5 on AP test. A few majors require only one semester of calc, and again AB may enable you to test out of it. Math intensive majors such as engineering, science, etc., require extensive calc so passing the BC AP Test may allow you to jump over freshman Calc into the second year multivariable class, and/or open opportunities for other electives. I just finished some research on this for my DD to help with her Senior schedule. She signed up for AB to meet her architecture math requirement.</p>
<p>If I plan to go to business school after college, should I take the AB or BC exam?</p>
<p>If you are taking AP Calc AB?</p>
<p>hideANDseek - the AP Calc AB/BC exam taken at high school level is relevant for undergrad, not aware of any impact on grad school. Check out the course requirements for your intended undergrad business major in college and determine how much math is required. Some colleges tell you precisely what courses you can test out of with AP exams.</p>
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