<p>Hi everyone…this is my first post ever…!!</p>
<p>I just have a question on whether I should take Calc AB or BC next year… I want to major in English (or something of that sort…by senior year, i’ll have taken 7/8 English courses offered at my school)… By the way, my high school is pretty rigorous so then probably whoever else applies to Brown will have taken BC… Would Brown care which course I pick in the end?</p>
<p>i dont think so, especially since youre gonna major in english.</p>
<p>Infact, Calc. AB is the highest level of math at many schools. However, I do hope you are a phenomenal english person. That'd be even better if you were to go with Calc AB. </p>
<p>What does everyone else think?</p>
<p>take the bc course and plunge in, never hesitate to take a challenege, calc bc only gets hard towards the end... I HATE TAYLOR series!!</p>
<p>Although AB is the highest level of math at some schools, it's not at yours. You will be evaluated in context with your own school. They will see that yours offers BC and that you didn't take it. This is fine, if you take an otherwise challenging courseload, but you should know that probably everything that can count against you will, given the strength of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>BC just looks better and isn't hard (I'm not a good math student just so you know). I'm doing fine in that class and have been doing great on the practice AP exams I've taken so far. Sure, some of the topics are more complicated than AB, but overall I think the challenge of BC plus the value of having it on your transcript is worth it. Just my 2 cents...</p>
<p>BC sounds scary, but I have found that it is not too hard. As long as you are willing to do your hw and study for tests it should not be that hard-even for an "english" person. You pay the same amount for the BC exam as you do for the AB so it makes more sense to try and knock out 2 semesters instead of just 1.</p>
<p>BC is easy only if you can keep up with assloads of homework every night</p>
<p>I don't do the homework, so I'm struggling</p>
<p>Amen, Sempitern, I have a test on Chapter 9 which is Taylor series and stuff, and it's killing me. Makes the Integral Applications and Related Rates look easy by comparison!</p>
<p>But take BC. You won't regret it. Plus you might learn Calc better this way because a high school class will be a smaller environment where you will receive more personal attention.</p>
<p>agreed. even if you end up failing the BC test, you still get an AB subscore, so you can fail the BC part but still get a 5...besides, teh curriculums aren't too different..with BC its just an extra couple of chapters on series, rotations of solids, and vectors...</p>
<p>i also hate taylor series!!!</p>
<p>Haven't gotten to vectors yet, how are they?</p>
<p>(If I pull off an A in Calc it will be a small miracle)</p>
<p>they're ok, actually. you may have to cover 3-d graphs first.</p>
<p>Take BC. You can get it over with that way or just be extra prepared for math in college.</p>
<p>Tomorrow is my last day of high school math class. Well, it's the last day we're learning anything new and then it's off to AP Review.</p>
<p>It probably depends on your teacher. BC wasn't easy for me (I suck at math) - I got an ok final grade but I pretty much failed the AP.</p>
<p>oii.. im on sequences and infinite series now.. gonna hit power series soon</p>
<p>if you can handle taylor series, you are a baller...that makes me a baller</p>
<p>Thanks for the imput everyone...
I guess the general rule is to take the most challenging class ur school offers? hahaha. following that, i guess ill have to take chem ap too.. (AHHHH!!!...)</p>
<p>There is only one level of Calc offered at my school, and it is neither AB or BC. It is college level calc 1 and 2 in one course, excluding taylor series (I assume) which is the only thing on the BC exam that we don't learn. According to my teacher, we are in calc 2 territory presently. Right now we are on methods of trigonometric integration, completing the square relating to substituting trigonometric expressions for algebraic expressions, and changing limits of integration.</p>
<p>here here to sempiturn and others!</p>
<p>i hate chapter 9 and infinite/taylor/maclaurin/geometric/power/everything series. it's all the same...confusing!</p>
<p>hehe</p>
<p>Basically take BC it isn't that hard at all.
The only think my class hasn't learned yet is Taylor Series but I have been on spring break for about 2 weeks so come next week we will be up to par with all you guys.</p>
<p>It's all about the Ratio Test, people! My Chapter 9 Test actually didn't go too bad today which is awesome.</p>
<p>I don't think it's NECESSARY to take BC in high school but definitely take it if you enjoy math and enjoy a challenge.</p>