<p>My daughter is very interested in Richmond, and her stats are somewhat respectable. However, she is not a MAth Whiz and has (with my expert assistance me) made some poor course choices. . . Honors Geometry as freshman (B); Summer Algebra II (pass/fail-she passed); Honors Trig (B)(soph) and AP Calc. AB (B-/Cplus). . . With the summer course she has 4 credits, and wants to call it a day- not take Math her senior year- take elective Adv. Piano, Creative writing. I am thinking she should take another math course-- Probability and Statistics- no honors, apparently not too hard, to give her another math credit and maybe another B or better in math lst semester senior year. Any opinions? Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Perhaps it's just me, but I would think that her not taking a math course her senior year could be viewed as a slacking off. I also think that if she were to take another math and worked hard to get a good grade, it could help offset the AP Calc. If your school offers AP Stat, I would suggest taking that over a non-honors course. If she does well enough, she could get college credit and not have to take it in college. Really, the stat course isn't too difficult once you get the basic concepts and become adept at using the calculator.</p>
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<p>My son, too, really likes the U. of Richmond, but he has a problem with math for his senior year. He has taken every class, including AP Calculus BC and AP Stat. The closest college to us that offers a math class is more than an hour away. He plans to take AP Physics B, along with four more AP classes. How will that be viewed? He already has taken AP Bio and AP Chem.</p>
<p>Please remember, I'm not an admissions person, so what I say on these boards is simply one man's opinion, and may not be worth the time it takes me to type it out.</p>
<p>I'd think with all the other AP's and the fact that he essentially maxed out his offerings, he'd be in good shape. Schools want to see you push yourself by taking lots of difficult courses. There is plenty of time in college to take some courses in fields that interest you to continue to broaden your horizons. UR being a LAC especially encourages this. I took some guitar classes, a number of leadership classes and a course on the Civil War (as a business major), my fiance was an accounting major but had enough artsy classes to finish with an arts management minor and another friend who had never taken an art class before college graduated with an art minor and a major in bio becuase she took so many pottery courses as she found it as a way to relax from her research.</p>
<p>Hi everyone--</p>
<p>Huntmom--in your daughter's situation I wouldn't think it would hurt to take prob/stats next year. It is awesome that a non-math type managed to do AP calc junior year even with a B-/C+. No shame in that but I'd stick with taking a course in the discipline (although if it conflicts with creative writing or adv. piano on the schedule I don't think it is a fight I'd take on--just have her mention the schedule conflict on her applications). Certainly AP stats would also be beneficial to her but not a deal-breaker if she doesn't have it. </p>
<p>momreads--if he's exhausted the curriculum at his high school we would never expect him to do more than that. There are extremely motivated kids who would do the hour drive, but in my opinion, with the price of gas, its not worth that! If he can replace math with another academic area that's great but it certainly sounds like he's taken a highly rigorous curriculum for which he is to be commended! </p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
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<p>Thanks, everyone, for your input. DD has decided to take AP Physics next year as a compromise-- not really math, but she loves the Physics teacher and calculus based physics "clicks" with her, so that counts for a great deal. . . And to my second teenager's relief, I am promising to retire my Course Obsession Mom crown. . .</p>