<p>I am a junior and I took trig honors and pre calc honors this year so I have four years of math credits under my belt. I absolutely loathe math and do not want to take AP calc, the only math available for me next year. I was going to not take math senior year so that I could take a few electives involving english/history which is the side of the spectrum I'm leaning towards in trying to figure out my major. Is it bad to not take math senior year even if I already have four credits???</p>
<p>If your Math SAT I or Math SAT II is decent and you’re SURE you don’t want to do anything math related, then sure don’t take a math.</p>
<p>If you’re the humanities type it’s not really a bad thing to pass on AP Calc as a senior, however you’ll wish you had if you’re required to take math in college.</p>
<p>Check if the colleges you want to go to allows you to place out of a required math class if you take AP Calc. If so, then maybe you can take it… but its up to you</p>
<p>You could always take AP stats your senior year. It’s still a math class, but it’s easier than calc. That way colleges would still see your taking math without you having to take calc.</p>
<p>dancingmac, I’m taking AP stats this year as a senior, and took AP Calc as a junior. I’m more of a ‘complete math’ type person than ‘writing/english/humanities’ type, and I actually find AP stats harder for me than AP Calc. I think it differs on the teachers, but my calc teacher was still a hard grader. I suggest stats if you like to write, but calc if you like to do the math and be done with it.</p>
<p>Stats FRQ:
<em>does math</em>
“This means that in 1990, the cars of ___…”</p>
<p>Calc FRQ:
<em>does math</em>
<em>circles answer</em></p>
<p>=) I think it depends on person to person. If your school DOES have both stats and calc, I suggest talking to both teachers and people who have taken one or the other, or even both.</p>
<p>I didn’t take math senior year. (though I took AP Calc junior year and got a 4 so I got credit for it in college)</p>
<p>I would take Stats, if anything. You may need it for a humanities (like Psych).</p>
<p>But if you hate math, don’t take a math class. I haven’t taken a math class in 2 years. :D</p>
<p>Math is the only thing that I can think of for which I haven’t met someone who hasn’t taken atleast 4 years of (or atleast through BC for those who took it as juniors) and is going to a 4 year university. Now, that does not mean that you won’t be able to go to a 4 year university, and it doesn’t mean that you can’t get into a good university either, but I think your chances will be severely marred if you don’t take a math class. By the way, I’m in Engineering so it’s unlikely that I would have met someone who wouldn’t have taken as much math as they could have, so things may be better for you than it seems like by how I’m describing.</p>
<p>However, I certainly can understand the desire to not take a math class, as I personally did not take an English class my senior year. And if you really don’t want to, don’t. But understand that it may not be optimal from a college admissions standpoint.</p>
<p>And for what it’s worth, Stats is WAY WAY WAY easier than Calc BC. Three all caps "WAY"s doesn’t even do justice to how much easier it is than BC. I don’t know how it compares to AB but I assume it’s a fair bit easier than that too.</p>
<p>@BubbleTea
“Calc FRQ:
<em>does math</em>
<em>circles answer</em>”</p>
<p><em>gasps</em> I can not believe that math in schools is actually tested with multiple choice questions… I actually find that offensive, that’s be like testing art skills by doing “color by numbers”.</p>
<p>Do you have AP statistics at your school? I am a humanities person and stats was a much better option than calc II, but you still get the math credit :).</p>
<p>Hmm, even if you “absolutely loathe” math, see if you can take Regular or Honors Calc which will move a lot slower and be much easier than AP. If you’re applying to competitive colleges and many other applicants took Calc their senior year, it’ll probably make you look less competitive. This is what a guidance counselor at my school told me. I understand that you don’t want to take it but it will probably best for college admissions to take it. However, if you don’t care what college admissions folks think and you’re not applying to highly selective schools, don’t take it.</p>
<p>I really don’t think colleges will scrutinize the fact that you didn’t take a math class senior year. They already have so much to look over. One class isn’t going to matter.</p>
<p>If you can take at least statistics you should, since it’s basically a social science class.</p>
<p>I’m scared to take Statistics. I remember in Pre-Calc I had to do those permutation and combination problems. Those were THE MOST stressful math problems I’ve ever had to do. You couldn’t check your answer. Oh god. I don’t want to think about this. <em>shudders</em></p>
<p>You didn’t take Trig and Pre-Calc, Trig is apart of Pre-Calc (we spent 1 qtr just on trig, just finishing it up now). You should check with your guidance counselor to see how many credits you will have.</p>
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<p>That’s not in AP Statistics. Now if you’re taking a Probability class, it might be on there, but statistics goes well beyond probability.</p>
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<p>I recommend taking math. perhaps your school has a honors calc course? or AP Stats? AP Calc AB also really isn’t that bad… in college you’ll probably see math again… so you should take some math course to possibly skip math in college or be prepared for college-level math.</p>
<p>Why does everyone think in college you have to do Calculus?</p>
<p>I don’t have to (even if I didn’t have AP credit for it). Yes, we have to take one quantitative course, but that includes stats, logic and the like as well.</p>
<p>It’s perfectly fine to not take math senior year. And if you feel pressured in the end, just don’t take Statistics. Loads of busy work. Take something more useful and interesting, and slightly more challenging.</p>
<p>^^ same here</p>
<p>You can actually get out of it with a high enough SAT (II maybe) score.</p>
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<p>I would generally agree with this, unless you’re really allergic to math.</p>