<p>Taking Ap Calc AB junior year and then taking Ap calc bc senior year?</p>
<p>Will colleges look down on that? It wasn't my fault that not enough people signed up this year (junior year), so we didn't have a class. Quite possibly, there will be a BC class senior year, and I think colleges will look down and think that I purposely didn't take it junior year?</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>i thought it was normal to take ap calc ab junior year then bc the next year? thats how my school does it. i dont think theres anyone in bc that didnt take ab. im a junior in ab and plan to take bc next year.</p>
<p>I think it’s fairly common for people to do that. At my school a lot of people skip right into BC, but a lot of schools don’t do it like that, and since BC wasn’t available to you, your choice shouldn’t hurt you at all.</p>
<p>I think us neurotic overachievers look way too far into stuff. I have the same problem haha.</p>
<p>But looking from an outside point-of-view, I see absolutely no reason why colleges would look down on that. There are tons of reasons why a good student would take AB before BC. The school could require AB before BC. There could be scheduling conflicts. Or, in the case of your school, the school just didn’t have BC before.</p>
<p>Even if you did purposely take AB instead of BC, how would that be bad? You could have just wanted to be better prepared.</p>
<p>^^ True, so true</p>
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<p>It was not when I was in high school. There was only one calculus class, which taught the AP Calculus BC syllabus in one year to seniors who were one grade ahead in math (at the time, there was maybe one student every few years who was two grades ahead in math taking calculus in junior year). Yes, the good students got scores of 5 on the BC test.</p>
<p>The students ready for calculus in junior year should be the ones great enough in math to be able to handle AP Calculus BC in one year, instead of doing AB one year and BC the next (which could be too slow paced and boring for the great at math students, unless the course was enriched with extra theory). After all, post-secondary schools from community colleges to the top universities expect freshmen who are zero grades ahead in math to handle calculus (which AP Calculus BC approximates) over one year.</p>
<p>here… that is considered advanced. LOL
I really don’t think you should worry about it.</p>