<p>I am doing scheduling for my senior year of high school and looking at two options:</p>
<p>AP Literature (Year-long)
AP Biology (Year-long)
AP Human Geography (Year-long)
AP Calculus (Year-long)
Tech Ed. (Semester-long)
And a semester of study hall</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>AP Literature (Year-long)
AP Biology (Year-long)
AP Human Geography (Year-long)
Statistics (Semester-long)
Tech Ed. (Semester-long)
And a year of study hall</p>
<p>I think the second option is best, especially because even though I've done well in Pre-Calc, it is not my strongest course. But I have been told that colleges find AP Calc to be very important.
Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Does your school have a regular calculus class you could take instead of AP Calculus or Statistics?
If you did well in pre-calc I don’t see any reason why you can’t handle calculus.</p>
<p>I wish they offered a regular calculus class, it would make my life so much easier. The problem isn’t that I don’t think I can handle calculus, but that I don’t think I can handle four AP courses.</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB is pretty easy, and I’m taking it without having taken pre-calc. I went in after honors algebra II/trigonometry and I have an A. </p>
<p>It depends on how good your teacher is, most likely. Mine is decent, but she does a good job of explaining WHY things work the way they do. </p>
<p>The biggest myth among high school students is that calculus is the bane of every human’s existence. It isn’t.</p>
<p>Calculus is not actually particularly hard. My school (which is not American) does some differentiation and curve sketching in the equivalent of sophomore year, because it’s actually significantly easier than a lot of stuff in a US “precalculus” course. If it’s just AB, then I don’t think you’ll have much to worry about.</p>
<p>Besides, a full year of maths is probably best.</p>