<p>If I were applying as something other than an engineering student, how likely is it that I get accepted w/o taking calculus? I'm wondering because I'm a junior in HS and thinking about my schedule as a senior.</p>
<p>Does your school offer it? For your sake, it's better to take it. Kids will come in bypassing 31A/31B (single-variable) or they'll have taken the courses without 4's and 5's and will have a leg-up on your when starting your math sequence(s).</p>
<p>Yeah, my school offers AB and BC Calc.</p>
<p>I was hoping you could give me some advice about my schedule. So I'm not taking math this semester, but next smster I have Trig, so that means as a Senior I could jump right into AB. Or, I could also take Pre-Calc at a CC as a summer course, which would give me the option of going into BC Senior year. What do you think?</p>
<p>Its not required, but so many people have it that it might be good to have it too. I don't think it would affect your admissions in any way as long as your senior schedule is strong otherwise. AP scores aren't used to determine admissions, and the AP extra point is only given for sophomore/junior year. I'd say that, if you should've taken calculus, it would've been sophomore or junior year, not senior year.</p>
<p>I took AB Calc in my senior year. It would look pretty decent to have it during your senior year. It depends on the rest of your app, but I wouldn't stress out about having BC Calc for my senior year. Do something that looks good during the summer, like community service. If I remember correctly, UCs did want to see your tentative senior schedule, first semester.</p>
<p>it can also depend on what you want to major in. i took AB, and it was pretty much worthless to me (aside from the units it gave) because i'm a psych major. AP stats would have been much more helpful, but the calc teacher was better, so i went with that in high school, and had to learn stats here. no biggie, but, if you really know for sure you don't need it, and you don't think you want it, it's not going to make or break your admission. but you do need to challenge yourself somehow, so if you don't take AP calc as a senior, take some other AP or honors class so your schedule doesn't look light.</p>
<p>Importance of doing community service is overhyped IMO... unless you won something the Prudential aware for comm. service. </p>
<p>I took "useless" APs in high school as well more to show I could do it rather than it being relevant to my course of study... Try your best with math - if you're adamant about engineering you want to keep pace with your peers.</p>
<p>Community service during the summer > getting a job > doing nothing</p>
<p>getting a job > comm serv (people BS this so much unless it's an official position; besides, who actually tallies EVERY SINGLE HOUR they worked at the homeless shelter, doing admin. work for community race, organizing blood drives, etc.?) > reading books > doing nothing > TV</p>
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<p>I don't think I'm going to do any major involved much with math for what its worth. But yeah I was just wondering if not having calc would really hurt my chances of admission. I don't plan on having a light senior load either though. I'm going to have APs and what not, but it was just calc I was worried about.</p>
<p>So did the large majority of people you know that got in take calc?</p>
<p>Yes, but if you're not okay with it, and the rest of your sched. is heavy, don't worry about it!</p>
<p>Haha thanks. I'm just worried that even with a heavy senior schedule, admissions officers at a school as competitive as UCLA would really not like someone w/o Calculus.</p>
<p>no reason for them to discriminate against it. as long as you are taking what APs and honors are offered, they can't punish you for not choosing the "right" ones, because there aren't any right ones. it's just that most people happen to have taken calculus.</p>
<p>yea i took BC and i got overconfident, right now im in 31A and i got the lowest grade of all my three classes</p>