There’s a space on CommonApp where you’re supposed to list your courses&you can send your transcript.
UCs ask you to self report your courses, both HS and CC.
For the UC’s, you can check transferability using assist.org. As stated, you self report CC classes on the UC application if transferable, they will be included in your UC GPA calculations along with receiving an extra Honors point/ semester in the calculation regardless if they are posted on your HS transcript or not. HS and College transcripts are sent to the UC in which you enroll.
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Keep in mind that if you take classes at a CC those classes will stay with you forever. Meaning that any future undergrad or grad programs you apply to will require a transcript from all colleges you ever attended and may use those grades in figuring your gpa. If you get an A then no problem, but you didn’t say what you got in AP Cal BC which may be an indicator of how ready you are for additional math classes. I’ve known kids that jumped ahead in math in HS thinking it would look impressive to be taking them before everyone else but didn’t do so great in the classes.
Good to know. Then it will make more sense to hold it until I am fully ready.
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many thanks.
For math heavy majors, it is likely that calculus-based statistics will be required or more useful than non-calculus-based introductory statistics which is what AP statistics is.
AP statistics in high school can be useful as a way of determining your interest in statistics or statistics-heavy subjects (like econometrics in economics or industrial engineering / operations research), even though it may not give useful subject credit or advanced placement for such a major.
As noted above, for UCs and CSUs, see https://www.assist.org .
For private and out-of-state colleges, check on their transfer credit web site to see if they have a listing (e.g. USC has a listing, but many do not). Keep syllabus, books, and returned assignments and exams in case you need to document the content of the course to a college you want transfer credit at.
For UCs and CSUs, you self-report all high school and college courses and grades on the application (and they will recalculate GPA from what you list).
For other colleges, you will report all high schools and colleges attended, and either send all transcripts or self-report like with UCs and CSUs, depending on what the college wants.
If you are pre-med or pre-law, remember that college courses and grades from when you were in high school will be included in applications to medical or law school.
Not sure calculus based statistics is really a thing. A lot of statistical distributions are not amenable to integration and you will end up using the same Z-score tables/TI-84 that you use in your AP Stats class.
That said most universities do have a separate statistics course for engineers which need calculus as a prereq.
I’m actually in a calculus-based probability/statistics class right now. We use integral calculus very heavily when it comes to means and variances of continues distributions (normal, exponential, beta, gamma, etc.) and differential calculus when it comes to a concept called “moment generating functions”.
It’s required for my major (an engineering major), stats majors, and an elective for math majors.
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Which state are you in? Public school or private? Seems like taking AP Stat is a way to go next year. You never know - your school may add a more advanced class, hire more teachers.
Did you explore your school district or state online campus offerings? No AP classes usually offered during summer, but sometimes more advanced math classes are offered during fall and spring semesters.
Good luck!
Irrespective of whether this might represent the case in your high school curriculum, note that on the college level, statistics courses appear through the junior and senior levels of the math curriculum (as well as on lower levels).
However, AP statistics emulates a non-calculus introductory statistics course in college that is often recommended to fulfill a math or quantitative reasoning requirement for students in no-math majors. I.e. it is quite different from the calculus-based statistics courses that statistics and applied math majors may take.
For a high school student considering math-heavy majors, AP statistics may be useful to help determine interest in statistics and related majors, but should not be expected to give subject credit or advanced placement in such a major (analogous to AP CS principles for CS and related majors).
Completion of a high school AP statistics class may allow a college student to enroll in a higher level “introductory” statistics course, however.
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Please please just make sure that you take four years of English, science, social studies, and math…and at least three years of foreign language. Don’t JUST take accelerated math courses at the expense of other courses colleges require.
For CA schools you also need an arts year of credit…so make sure you have that too.
Don’t make a mistake and think that if you take a bunch of higher level math courses, those will make up for deficiencies in other courses you might not have taken.
@Gumbymom did I miss anything?
PLEASE TAKE SOME ENGLISH COURSES! What I’ve read in this post indicates that you take short cuts in English grammar and don’t formulate sentences correctly. It feels like a Staccato type of English.
Work on your written language and how to formulate your questions correctly.
UC course requirements. Subject requirement (A-G) | UC Admissions
Just to make sure you have the basics of applying to very selective universities, this is what they will expect:
- 4 years of English, including most at Honors level and at least 1 at AP/DE level
- 4 years of social science/history, including most at Honors or AP/DE level, with 1 year of African American, World, or European History, 1 year of US history, and 2 others which may include more History, Geography, Psychology, Government, Economics… (and more if DE).
- World Language through level 4 or AP
- Math - you’re good there
- Science: Bio, Chem, Physics + 1 more, preferably AP or DE
- Art (performance/studio or art history)
- electives (could be creative writing or CS… or Culinary arts), something you take just because you’ve got personal interests beyond what’s required
(and they know you may have to fulfill graduation requirements like Phys Ed and Health.)
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