<p>A friend's daughter is a brilliant performer, artist and poet. She has won art and history awards, had leads in school plays. She will take AP history next year, two languages, a science and trigonometry (one semester) plus theater and art electives She will probably major in college in something creative- writing, theater or photography. But...she's not sure. She's a soph now.
She does not want to go beyond trig and the school principal and GC are "strongly advising" against this decision. She is probably a B+ student (not counting electives) and now they have her afraid that by skipping calculus she will seem lazy or not motivated enough in her academics.
What do you think? She is not interested in an Ivy- but she would like a school with a good reputation. She is not aiming for a major in sciences or math. Thanks</p>
<p>It sounds like she will be looking towards some of the more selective LACs. In this case I wouldn't say calculus is a must, although I would say she should probably take a science at least in her senior year if possible. </p>
<p>More important for these schools would probably to try very hard if possible to raise her grades in the English, History, and Language classes to A's for junior and senior year. Not that a B+ is bad, obviously it's great, but these schools tend to look at grades very strongly. It does depend though, on what she means by good reputation. There are many schools with a good reputation, that have varying levels of selectivity. I think she will get into a fine school, it just depends on if she has some of these selective LACs in particular in mind.</p>
<p>AP stats if that is available would be a great choice...</p>
<p>Yeah AP Stats! Took AP Calculus. Stats is definitely easier yet it's still an AP! Ain't life grande?</p>