<p>Why do people take AP Calculus AB and then AP Calculus BC?</p>
<p>THE MEDIOCRITY OVERWHELMS ME</p>
<p>Because it makes for two easy years of math with two 5s to go on your college resume.</p>
<p>Such mediocrity!</p>
<p>Well at my school, you are required to take AB before you can take BC. Believe it or not, its not always an option. In addition, I, and at least one other student at my HS have 800's on both the SAT I and SAT II Math. Just because you choose to, or are forced to do it this way does not, by any stretch of the imagination, always result in mediocrity.</p>
<p>800 on SATI and SATII math means absolutely nothing. You can be the most mediocre student ever and still get a 2400 on the SAT and so on and so on. I'm talking about the drive to learn. People who take AP AB and BC are copping out...people wonder how folks get into Penn, and at least in my case, it was by taking the hardest classes possible, not the "two easy 5's." Like I said, I was smoldering!</p>
<p>Im just saying sometime you don't have a choice: at my school, and every school in my county, to get to BC, you need AB first. It might be that way at other places too. Before I came to CC, I thought both was normal. Is it really that big of a deal?</p>
<p>Because AB or calc honors is a prerequisite for Calc BC...at least in my school...</p>
<p>Then the system should be changed.</p>
<p>if the kids dont live near a college, or are intimidated by taking a college course then its understandable.</p>
<p>But I guess what gets me is that there's ovelap. It's like taking the same class over again.</p>
<p>You take them in order. Honestly there's more than enough new stuff to learn in BC, the overlap is just a refresher.</p>
<p>yeah, we had to take AB first at my school too...its probably just because the college board offers both APs, if they changed it to just "AP Calculus" then they would change it in HSs too</p>
<p>this is really pathetic. get over it. some people take ab and bc. not everyone has an option. if they do, but they choose to do both, what's the big deal? it is THEIR decision. please, move on with your life. let go of your anger! there is so much more in this world to think about.</p>
<p>I took BC without AB since 11th grade i finished precalc and A</p>
<p>crashingwaves: this is a forum about people whoring themselves to get into college. If you're here, obviously you care about college admissions to some degree, so it isn't a matter of "hur hur go do something else!" It's a forum. People talk on forums. It the whole purpose. So you're kind of pathetic.</p>
<p>And about people who choose, I'm just saying...colleges don't like mediocrity. Taking AB and BC, by choice, is mediocre, and it's part of what's wrong with American education these days. Thus the smoldering with generic rage. (did nobody notice it was generic? this all isn't THAT serious, like I said...I don't take this thing seriously, even if you all do)</p>
<p>I see you're pint, about doing it by choice. I would love to take just BC; then my school might have a multivariable course. That would be sweet...</p>
<p>There is no point whatsoever in taking AB and then BC because you get TWO scores for the BC test, one of which is an AB subscore. The only point of taking AB is to fill an extra "AP tests" spot on apps and be like 'BOO-YAH I GOT A 5.' Only college whores do that. Unless, of course, your school requires that you take one then the other. In that case, you are being educated in a brothel.</p>
<p>I understand, but would I have been able to be as lazy as I was by taking just BC Calculus...I don't think so. And there, your argument fails.</p>
<p>And also, some of us are also taking AP English, histories, economics, governments, physics, chemistry, and all sorts of honors courses. Most of us aren't obsessed with only math.</p>
<p>pentasa, you can't be serious. I can't roll my eyes hard enough.</p>
<p>And Nathan: that's my entire argument. Laziness. Mediocrity.</p>