All the colleges we’ve visited for my D24 have said they expect the student to take the most rigorous program that their school offers (and perform well in that program) . For her school, that is IB.
All the HL classes at our school included calculus. I didn’t know there was a version without it. Always learning something!
The math HL courses include calculus, but some versions do not have enough calculus to be counted for subject credit for regular calculus 1 by some math departments (although in the example above, A&I HL may be counted for business calculus 1 or biology calculus 1 by the math department in question).
The OP is long gone. I’m unsure the purpose in bumping after 2 years.