<p>By the end of senior year, I will have taken about 6-7 ap courses (ap euro sophomore year, ap US and AP psych sophomore year, and AP Lit, AP Gov, AP econ, and AP Bio) I might switch AP bio with Physics Honors. </p>
<p>I am wondering if not taking an AP math and only getting up to Precalculus will hurt my chances at top schools. In middle school I wasn't the strongest math student and was poorly placed. I do well now but am unfortunately behind in math.</p>
<p>I have a pretty good line up of activities outside of school and have done a few interesting summer programs as well as leadership in clubs, community service, and a part time job.</p>
<p>Ultimately, will this lack of advanced mathematics hurt my chances at schools like: College of the Holy Cross, Tufts University, Union College, Bates College, University of Vermont, University of Pittsburgh, Davidson College, and Allegheny College?</p>
<p>I don’t know, it’s tough to say. I know several people who could not pass pre-calc by the end of their senior year because of our dumb 8th grade placement tests. It came to bite a few of them in the ass, but it also seemed to work out just dandy some others. They got accepted into GREAT schools, Williams among one of them.</p>
<p>Are you going to take any math in senior year? Most college want to see 4 years of math. What are you going to major, it could make a difference.</p>
<p>Only schools where that could potentially hurt you are probably Bates, Davidson, and Tufts. I seriously doubt they would reject you for it though. I myself am in honors trig (precalc was the first semester) and I’ve been accepted to 4 schools, deferred from 4 more, and haven’t been rejected yet.</p>
<p>If you’re behind in math, perhaps you could do some summer course? I too am behind one year in math (not because I’m bad at it, I’m in honors, I just didn’t sign up for honors math until freshman year, which screwed me over a little). To make up for it, the calculus teacher was nice and awesome enough to let me take Precalc at a UC over the summer, and take AP Calc next year (which would be on track for my age). </p>
<p>Just throwing it out there. I’d reccomend you talk to your counselors and such. If all else fails, maybe you could take an AP online course? There are plenty of options. </p>
<p>If you dont want to take an AP math class simply because you dont like math, thats perfectly fine too. Colleges know that some people have some interests. I’ve noticed that due to the courses you have, you are more intrested in History, English and social systems than you are with math. I’d somewhat reccomend taking AP World (taking all three history APs is a boost in college apps) sometime, and perhaps AP Eng Lang (again, these can be taken online, and perhaps even transferred to your transcript). </p>
<p>So to answer your question: No. You do not need to take a math course nor will it “hurt” you in your admission to ANY school (unless your intended major is in the field of mathematics/physics or something). Plenty of brilliant people who havn’t even taken Precalc in HS get into great schools like UPenn and Cornell simply because tehy are extremely great writers, which shows in their extracurriculars and essay. However, if you arnt taking one simply because of scheduling conflicts, I’d reccomend talking to your counselor over alternate ideas for you to take the course.</p>
<p>I think you will be OK. Yes, take four years of math. If you have block scheduling and can somehow catch up, it is an consideration. </p>
<p>My D was not fond of Math. She had similar AP classes as yours. And she was a great writier and into the Humanities and Sciences, but NOT math. She was able to complete Alg I, Alg II, Geometry, and Precalc by junior year. She did not want to take Calc senior year. Her schedule was otherwise packed, and she did not want to set herself up for problems. She took College Algebra as a dual enrolled student instead. It worked out well, and she still took a math senior year. And funny thing, there were a few students who took AP Calc and did not get a 3. They were back having to take College Algebra in college. The comments she received were positive from admissions in that she comtinued to take math, and used it to her advantage.</p>
<p>yes I am definitely more into the english, history, social science, foreign language aspect…By then end of senior year I will have taken all the AP history classes available (there is no ap world offered at my school) This is very helpful and encouraging! I will be taking 4 years of science…I did look into taking math in the summer but my teacher said the local community college course was far too watered down to be transferrable. Also, I am doing a summer program at Yale for 3 weeks (im taking a half semester of AP gov and doing other political studies). </p>
<p>Also i could technically double up on AP stats and precalc but that just seemed tedious and did not really fit in my schedule. I was more apt to doubling up on history plus I need to take a business class as I am very heavily involved in my schools DECA chapter. I also want 5 years of french on my transcript</p>
<p>I have a suggesstion for you if your school doesnt offer AP World: take it online. My school doesn’t offer World as well and because of this I took it online and they are going to put it on my transcript. It can show even more drive, determination and love for the humanities if you take all the history APs. Just a suggesstion</p>
<p>Hmmmm how much time would I need to put in weekly? and how long do you take it for? Yeah mainly I need to do as much as possible to supplement my low math placement…does anyone have any further advice to really supplement my low math placement? I also started off kindof subpar freshman year and got my gpa up to about a 92 by the end of this year hopefully…</p>