<p>Okay, so this has been my math progression thus far:</p>
<p>9th grade - Geometry and Algebra II/Trig (those are two diff classes)
10th grade - Pre-Calculus</p>
<p>now, I took the math progression of someone a year older due to my placement tests (AlgII was a sophomore class, Pre-Calc was a junior class), and everyone after Pre-Calc had three options - Calc AB, Calc BC, Discrete (an easier alternative to Calc). I didn't have room on my schedule for Calc BC (a two period class) or the desire, so I chose Calc AB for junior year. After this year, I won't have any more maths to take. (I could take BC, but again - I'm not going to have room or desire, esp. since I'm not going into a math field.) </p>
<p>Would it look bad if I just didn't take a math class senior year? There are a few (like 5) people in my grade that would also be at the end of their math progression junior year BUT they are all math people and will be taking math at our local university senior year... I seem to be the only one in this position without a desire to continue it.</p>
<p>It’s okay, because you got to calculus level math. It isn’t the strongest program, but you should be in good shape. Hopefully you have a full and interesting Sr. schedule.</p>
<p>So some of you (@brownparent) think that my progression is weaker than the one a typical student at my school would take? My current (and obviously, future) schedule is quite rigorous…</p>
<p>I’m not interested in Harvard or the like, but thanks, haha, guess I just misread. Even if I wanted to take another year of math, I don’t really have any options. I can’t afford two semesters of university math, and there’s no point in taking Calc BC after Calc AB (my calc teacher, who teaches both, told me I’d be wasting my time).</p>
<p>Well, BC does teach more stuff than AB, so I don’t see why he/she would tell you you’re wasting your time. I mean, you’d be getting a whole other semester of college math credit for BC.</p>
<p>Because in my school Calc BC goes over the same topics as Calc AB just more in depth - but still the same book and topics. But mainly, it’s the fact that it is 2 class periods, which I literally could not fit into my schedule. I guess there really wasn’t a point in my posting here, then.</p>
<p>Yep, looks like no point to your post. But it isn’t something I’d worry about. When I said it wasn’t the strongest schedule, I mean that if you had taken Calc BC, that would be the strongest. But as I said, you did make it to calculus so you are in good shape.</p>
<p>Well, that just doesn’t make sense. If it were true, then your BC class wouldn’t be BC calculus; it would just be AB calculus, even slower. Calculus BC is meant to include methods of integration; Taylor and Maclaurin series, and tests for convergence; calculus of polar functions; parametric equations. None of these things are in the AB syllabus.</p>
<p>I’m not saying you have to take BC. I do think, as long as you don’t have any aspirations in math, science, economics or engineering, you’ll be all right having taken only AB. But you should appreciate that if you don’t take BC, you will be leaving something on the table, and you will be stopping math before you’ve exhausted your school’s offerings.</p>
<p>BrownParent, no, that’s not what I meant. There wasn’t a point in my posting here - because I didn’t really need anyone else’s opinion for me to eventually figure out that regardless of that, I am a strong applicant and that I shouldn’t worry.</p>
<p>But - I wouldn’t say my post (or anyone’s, for that matter) is pointless, because I am likely not the only one with this problem (I found out today there are two others in my position). If it ever gives someone else reassurance that a math-less year won’t be or encourages someone to take an elective math (which I have no access to) in that situation, then I’d say there was a point.</p>
<p>^Yes, I do find it strange that BC covers the same topics as AB in your school. AB definitely does not include techniques of integration or series. I would be surprised if you were exposed to those in AB, as then you could have just taken the BC exam.</p>
<p>Sikorsky - BC at our school is BC, it’s just that AB is more advanced than it would be in most schools, and it’s very similar. Our teacher has told us he uses the same curricula for much of it. Most that do get to IB math take Math Studies, so I feel fine in taking the extra step to take AB as a junior. My counselor today told me it would be hurting myself if I took it instead of the other IB classes I would be senior year. thanks again, but I don’t need any more help, guys!</p>
thanks again, but I don’t need any more help, guys!</p>