<p>i got into emory college of emory university ed.
i had a gpa of around 3.5 at a rigorous high school and ACT of 32
i am about to take finals and get the trimester grades.
i'm anticipating mostly B's with maybe one or two A-s.
my problem is a C/C+ I might get in Ap calc BC. </p>
<p>would this put my acceptance in danger??
or is 1 C and mostly Bs just fine.
i don't really have a legitimate excuse such as family death.
i guess i didn't work as hard, but definitely not so much that I deserve a C. </p>
<p>Well I really don’t like calculus and to be honest my teacher hates me (she’s known in our school to pick random students to hate and make their lives miserable). I got a 5 om the AB so I think I’m good for the requirement. I’d much rather spend my last term of my high school getting experiencing being a TA (I’ll be giving presentations, grading tests etc) than taking a class that I don’t plan on pursuing in college with a teacher who hates me.</p>
<p>@kaltol1: That’s a poisonous attitude to start in HS, just saying… It sort of sounds like those pre-meds who will say things like: “I don’t want to take a challenging class inside or outside the sciences unless it helps for medical school or the MCAT” (and let’s be honest, even if it was proven to help, if it was more challenging than normal, they still wouldn’t want to entertain it). It then of course turns out that while such courses were not directly related, the skills attained from them are actually useful. You can TA while toughing it out in calc (even if you get a C grade, you may make a 5, or at least continue to learn the material which is worth something in and of itself). Also, you never know where your interests will take you in college. It would be disappointing if you decided that you wanted to pursue something more quantitative all of the sudden and then you have to go through the crap that is Emory’s math 112 (calc. 2). </p>
<p>I guess I’m staying in Calc.So do I have to take Calc at Emory? Are their math-specific requirements? I know for the business school I need to either take a Calculus course or have AP credit. Does AP credit get me through the math requirement in general as well? </p>
<p>You should have the requirements fulfilled once you nail the AP BC Exam.
I approve of your choice.</p>
<p>Second semester senior year is the one semester you get where you can enjoy tough classes and learn and not worry about grades. You are doing the right thing.</p>
<p>Just finish calc. It may give you an edge over many of the many pre-bus people by giving you an edge in more quantitative classes like econ stats. or Bus350(I think most depts have caught on that math 107 is not acceptable and is at a low level. The b-school no longer takes it, but will take AP credit lol. I know for sure AP is harder than 107. Other depts have migrated to adding QTM100 as a pre-req), financial accounting, and the econ. classes if you haven’t taken the AP versions yet. Also, it means you can be more flexible while doing your 2 years in the college and maybe take CS and other quantitative math classes that may help you because you’ve already proven your ability in quantitative subjects. You don’t have to just spend those two years fulfilling b-school pre-reqs and choosing easy (or maybe stupid is the word. I’m sure many pre-bbas choose GERs at random…don’t do this) GERs and classes outside of the pre-reqs. You’ll be stronger on average so can do things that many pre-BBA students can’t and still do well. You don’t want to look exactly like the other BBAs come job or application time. You just want the same GPA (3.5-3.6) which is not that bad even with a kind of rigorous freshman year. </p>