Math Courses - stats, then calculus?

Applying to College
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<p>I'm currently a junior, and planning on taking statistics (albeit AP Statistics) and Discrete Mathematics (also AP, but specifically does not employ calculus) this year and Calculus my senior year. The reason for this is that math is my weakest subject and I'm already loaded up on APs for junior year - AP Eng, APUSH, AP French Lit, etc. etc. As you can see, my interests are extremely skewed towards the humanities...the problem is, I don't want adcoms to think I'm slacking off by not taking the established math sequence (advanced integrated mathematics --> calculus AB) when it would really be suicide to take calculus this year along with everything else (my hs is EXTREMELY rigorous; "regular" classes are like AP classes and AP classes are like college classes. Also, we have no weighting). </p>

<p>Basically, my rambling amounts to: is this math schedule OK?</p>

<p>Freshman year: some accelerated geometry course (I skipped algebra)
Soph year: Adv. integrated mathematics
Junior year: AP Stats and AP Discrete Math
Senior year: AP Calc AB</p>

<p>I have no interest in studying anything math related in college. I'll probably be an English/History major.</p>

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<p>you should be fine, especially if you plan on majoring in english. after all, it's not like AP stats is a slacker course... plus, it's useful in several areas, not just math.</p>

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<p>^ great, I'm glad to hear that, especially since it's too late to change anything now, ha. So colleges definitely see your senior schedule, right?</p>

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<p>I think for many top schools calculus is a theshold class they like to see students take on by senior year, even humanities students. Most students (except for major mathy kids heading for big math/science/tech schools, and even some of them) won't do it before senior year. How you get there, in terms of your sequence of math classes in earlier years, is not as important I don't think.</p>

<p>And, yeah, colleges want to know what your senior courses are when you apply. Some schools for their ED admissions cycle also want to see your first quarter grades if your school issues them. And virtually all schools will want a Mid-Year grade report as well as one at the end of the year, just to make sure you stayed on track.</p>