Pre-Calculus was never my strong suit and I struggle all the time, so I felt like AP Calculus would not fit me. Instead, I took AP Statistics because I thought it might help me with my major. This senior year, I have AP Bio, AP Stats, AP Gov/ Politics, AP Literature, and AP Psychology. I tried to challenge myself to look competitive for college, but I feel like because I did not take AP Calculus, I would be denied. I am very involved in school, constantly volunteering, in the top 3% of the school, and way above the average SAT and ACT score for my school. However, I am doubtful with college admissions coming up that because I didn’t take AP Calculus, I won’t be considered for a Health Science/ Pre-Health/ Biology major.
Just get an A in stats.
Getting and A in AP Stat is better than getting a lower grade in AP Calc. Even some students admitted by top engineering schools do not have AP Calculus.
Besides, if you had taken AP calc and not done well and not gotten a 4 or 5 on the exam, you would be taking Calc 1 in college anyways. So just make sure to get help with Calc once you are in college.
If you are pre-med I believe that you have to take 1 or 2 semesters of calc in college. If that is the case, I’d suggest you take calculus in HS. One you get to college you will find that most of the people in your Calc 1 class will have had the material already in HS and you will be struggling to play catch up (that happened to my S and it was really difficult for him).
You should be fine as long as you are not an engineering major. You will have to take calculus in college anyway (unless you got a 4 or 5 on the BC exam–then in most cases you could start in calc 3).
It sounds like it may be too late to make any change; in which case don’t worry about it. You can take calc in college. My suggestion, if it were possible, would have been to take a lower level calculus. I think ‘regular’ or honors calculus would have been the better choice over AP Stats.