<p>Starting next year, I'm going to have to take more classes than I can, so I wanted to know my options.</p>
<p>My question is: Do colleges want 4 years of traditional, in class mathematics? Or can you do independent study, where you do all the work that students in a corresponding math class do, but study yourself?</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore taking AP Calc BC, and I'll probably take a math class junior year, but I wanted other classes besides a math in senior year. I was wondering if I could independently study AP Stats (not specifically for the test, but for the curriculum experience).</p>
<p>If you're good enought to take AP Calculus as a sophomore, then it's be really easy to do AP Stats as a senior. From what I've heard, if you're good at math, then you could spend a week or two self studying, and still get a 5.</p>
<p>If you're in BC Calc, have you taken high school-level math in middle school? Because in most cases that I know of, that counts towards your total math credits.</p>
<p>But what are the colleges looking for on the math curriculum in high school? Do I need four years? I'm in a situation where I'll have many electives and double english classes, so I want to know if I can self study and still get the recognition because I don't want to be screwed up at the last moment.
If I did self-study AP Stats senior year, I think I would do all the homework with the other classes and go on a full year thing instead of just studying for the AP test.</p>
<p>When they say 4 years of math, I'm pretty sure they mean 4 years of high school math; in other words, you don't have to take another math class. However, if you take college level math classes at a community college or something, that could actually help your application quite a bit.</p>