I’m an upcoming junior in highschool debating whether I should be taking AP Statistics or PreCalculus in the next year. The oly issue with PreCalc is that I’ll have to take it online if I choose to take it, as other AP classes get in the way of taking it at school. Should I pick, or shoud I take both? (Albeit I do have 3 other AP classes this year so I’m unsure if I should really take 2 math classes, especially high level ones)
For the most part, Pre-Calc is going to help you a lot more since it is a necessary bridge to Calculus, which is needed for a lot of majors. AP Stats doesn’t buy you much at all, it’s not a prereq class for anything.
What courses conflict with precalculus as a regular course?
What do you want to major in? If it’s stem related at all then I think you should take both.
This is not a close question; choose precalc. It is much more important than AP stats. It also would allow you to take calc senior year.
I would strongly prefer the in-person class, depending on which AP course would need to be dropped.
What other classes are interfering with precalc? I agree with the above with precalc over stats and doing what you can to have that be at school.
AP Language and Composition and AP US History interfere with taking Precalc in school.
That’s really really poor planning on the part of the school. It’s very normal for a student to take PreCalc and AP Lang or PreCalc and APUSH. I’m sure you’re not the only student affected.
There are only two sections of precalculus that happen to be the same as the only sections of AP English language and composition and AP US history?
In your other thread at http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2053236-would-this-junior-year-schedule-seem-too-easy-for-top-schools.html , you were scheduling dual enrollment / college US history.
Totally agree that it’s odd to have conflicts with other core classes. I would call the guidance office…
I was attemoting to schedule dual enrollment, however the school cancelled said dual enrollment class (due to to not enough people signing up) and I’m unable to get transportation to otherwise take it on an actual college campus.