<p>Hello, I'm a senior now and I want to major in computer engineering which is like Computer Science and Electrical Engineering I think. I just managed to get into a Calculus I course in my local CC and I am wondering if I should self-study AP Statistics. </p>
<p>I thought of this because I heard (in College Confidential) that majors involving computer science should take a discrete mathematics or stats course. Is this true? And should I self-study for the AP Statistics exam? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>CS majors are often required to take a discrete math course, but AP statistics is not likely to be accepted in place of it. And if a statistics course is required, it will probably be a calculus-based engineering statistics course, which again means that AP statistics is not likely to be accepted in place of it.</p>
<p>See if a discrete math or calculus-based statistics course is offered at your community college (which one?). Note that each of these is typically just a one semester course.</p>
<p>In California, use <a href=“http://www.assist.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.assist.org</a> to see how the community college courses match up with courses required for your intended major at UCs and CSUs.</p>
<p>Okay thanks for letting me know. I checked the class schedule in the website for my local CC (City College of San Francisco) and Discrete Mathematics requires Calculus II so I guess I shouldn’t self-study AP Statistics and I should consider taking a Discrete Mathematics course when I’m at college rather than now (I’m considering appling to UCs, Cal Poly, and some out-of-state universities). I’ll just focus on my Calculus I course. Thanks ucbalumnus!</p>
<p>It doesn’t sound like it. I am in AP BC Calculus and I want to be an EE also! my BC teacher has told us that stats is an easy math class that will serve no purpose to engineers in college. He said that if we want to be engineers then our best two choices for senior year math is either Calc AB or BC depending on the individual.</p>
<p>It would be best to complete a full year of calculus to avoid issues of having to partially repeat courses if you go to a school on a different calendar.</p>
<p>For example, CCSF is on the semester system, so its Math 110A and 110B cover a full year of freshman calculus. But if you take only Math 110A (one semester of freshman calculus) and later attend a quarter system school (UCs other than Berkeley and Merced, both Cal Polys, Stanford, etc.), you will likely have to partially repeat CCSF Math 110A because you would start in the second (out of three) quarter of the freshman calculus sequence.</p>