<p>I'm a senior in college and I'm about to take AP Calc AB so I know that I'll need a graphing calculator for the class.
I was thinking about buying a TI 89 titanium but I'm having second thoughts because I don't know if it'll be useful after high school.<br>
I want to major in neuroscience and go through the pre med route, so will I be using a graphing calculator a lot during college?</p>
<p><em>bump</em> is an expensive graphing calculator worth it for neuroscience majors and pre med students?</p>
<p>if i were you, i would get a TI84+ or (if your short on cash) a TI83+. Im a rising senior and ive been using mine since 7th grade. By far the best purchase i have ever made, its paid for itself a hundred times over. I can’t be sure for the college part though, but i’m sure that in any case or situation a graphing calculator will be a great asset.</p>
<p>Also, i think you mean “senior in HS” in your post at the beginning, you said senior in college but then started talking about after HS and majoring.</p>
<p>DO NOT get the TI-89. Stick with the 84 or 83, it is all you will ever need.</p>
<p>I have an 89 and had to go buy an 83 because most people don’t know how to use the 89, because it is vastly different from the 84/83. A lot more expensive too.</p>
<p>FWIW, you can get by with a good scientific calculator in college if you are only studying biology based topics. Calculating pH levels doesn’t take much.</p>
<p>I never unpacked my high school calculator in college (it was a 1993 vintage TI-83). I used a simple calculator for everything from Physics to Stats. I don’t remember having to use a graphing calculator for anything except Calc, but I took it so long ago that I can’t recall for sure.</p>
<p>Nero-science, I doubt it. Unless you do not have a graphing calculator already then its not worth it.</p>
<p>Here’s another vote for the 83/84. Only buy the TI-89 if you have a definite reason for needing that model.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the reply!
Darn, yeah I mistakenly put college instead of high school XD
sorry for the confusion.
My cousin has a TI83 that she is planning to give me so I’ll just use that for senior year.</p>
<p>Ti89 is totally worth it because it has CAS</p>
<p>HP50G enough said!</p>
<p>If you are going into engineering, math, or physics, then get one. If not which you said something about neuroscience, then I would probably not get one.</p>