<p>I'm a senior at one of the top high schools in MD.
Intended major: business, most likely accounting
Prospective schools: Georgetown, College park (as an alternative to schools like GT, but will try to eventually transfer after freshman or soph years)
GPA: 3.6, most rigorous courses possible.</p>
<p>I took Calc AB as a junior, worked kind of hard (got tons of Cs and Ds on quizzes...), got a borderline A in the class, a pretty easy 5 on the AP exam.</p>
<p>I have an excellent teacher for Calc BC, but most topics in the curriculum aren't even going to be on the BC AP Exam. I'm thinking of dropping the class, but I kind of want the AP credit.
Here are my hesitations:
- I don't think my senior year 1st semester grade report's going to be pretty if I take this class (probably B or even C).
- I'm not a big fan of calc. I know it's going to be a lot more hard work, don't know if I'll have time for my communications and music internship.
- Is a BC credit even useful for an accounting major?</p>
<p>Can anyone give some suggestions? Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>You should look up what the math requirements are for the schools you are applying at. Most business degrees don’t require you to go much farther than a calc I class, or short-hand business calc in some cases. However, to answer your question, no calc has nothing to do with accounting. Accounting is very basic math. Just check with the colleges to see if your clac II class is relevent to the business major, otherwise, if it is going to lower your GPA, you might want to consider dropping it.</p>
<p>Some schools require a year of calculus. Many, however, do not. You certainly don’t need a second year of it. </p>
<p>In addition, a more useful course to take would be statistics. EVERY accounting program that I know about requires at least one course in statistics.</p>
<p>By the way, all of my kids attended a top high school in Maryland: Wootton</p>
<p>If you want my advice, however, take APs in areas that you are weakest such as English, History etc. This way, you won’t have to take these areas in college, which should pump up your college GPA. Most folks don’t understand this and take their strongest courses as APs.</p>
gt’s mcdonough requires only 1 semester of calc (4 credits), which i’ve already fulfilled by taking calc ab. if I pass the bc ap exam, i get 8 credits, 4 of them repetitively serve the same purpose as the ab credits, the other 4 count as liberal arts electives. i have the usual feeling of a semi-over-achiever: by taking bc, i would not only be fulfilling the requirements but surpassing them. (…am i really just stubbornly paranoid?)</p>
<p>To taxguy:
Thanks for the advice! I am taking AP stats this year, so that’s one good thing that i’m already doing
i’ve already taken the 2 econs, eng lang, bio, world history. i’m currently taking eng lit, spanish lang, stats and euro (due to scheduling conflicts, i might switch out of it if i stick with bc). i think it’s pretty much all the ap humanities/sci courses that i’m interested in…</p>
<p>to go on a bit of a sidetrack - i’m actually more interested in music and literature than any other subjects. i plan on majoring in accounting so i can obtain a financially stable job. right now i’m kind of going back and forth on the decision, so i’m sorry if i seem very indecisive. thank you so much for your help anyway!</p>
<p>If you go somewhere else or change your major you might need it.
For example, at UT Austin (#1 for accounting) you need Calc I and II. Also, if you decide to do a more science-y major, such as a form of engineering, you’ll definitely need it. I opted not to take BC and am kicking myself over it because calculus is much more difficult at UT than it was in high school.</p>
<p>At my school, DePaul University, business majors are required to take business calculus 1 and 2. I am an Accounting major and in my opinion the courses were not beneficial. Business calculus is essentially calculus without the trigonometry sections.</p>
<p>^I’ll clarify that at UT Austin, the calculus is the same calculus a math or engineering major would take, and it includes everything, so you might want to check that, too.</p>
<p>thanks! though i won’t be switching to anything science-y, it’s true that i’m not very sure of which path of business i might take. i also don’t have any other non-senior-slack-ish classes that i would like to take besides bc, so i think i will just stick with it. after all i don’t think it’s so difficult that i can’t handle it, just need some hard work. i might get Bs for quarter grades, but i’m pretty confident for a 5 on the AP. If there’s the possibility that i might need it in the future (or that it would make my profile look better…?), I certainly want to get it over with while i’m still in high school with my superbb math teacher.
again thanks so much!</p>
