Science Class Senior Year for Business Career

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Hi -
I recently received my schedule for my senior year and had a scheduling conflict where I’m stuck in a situation: I can either take an online AP Chemistry course via my high school, or I can take AP Stats (regular class).

For some context: I’m planning on going into some selective business schools (i.e. NYU Stern). I have already taken 3 years of science (Bio, Chem and Physics, all honors) and have done well. I’m overall a good student and have a 96/100 UW average because my school doesn’t calculate GPAs out of 4.

My senior year schedule would be:
AP Econ (both macro and micro)
AP Spanish Lang
AP Calc BC
English 4 Honors
A mandatory religion class (I go to a Catholic HS)
Either AP Chem online or AP Stats

Honestly, I would PREFER to not take AP Chem because I’m not a big fan of online courses. However, my only concern is that colleges will not like the fact that I didn’t take a science in my senior year. Although I plan on going into business, I keep hearing conflicting opinions. Wouldn’t AP Stat be more applicable to my major, anyways? What do you guys think??

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You’ll likely have to take calculus-based statistics as a business major. AP Stats is very basic material that you could probably self study with Barron’s, and many of the top-tier colleges don’t give credit. Have you taken any AP sciences? If so, then it probably doesn’t matter if you don’t take AP Chem.

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Yes, stats is more relevant to business majors but that doubles you up on math and means you’re missing a science.

If you have to take science online anyway, why AP Chem? There should be more than one online science choice from most online providers and AP Chem is likely a slog. It’s a tough class even with a good in-person teacher to keep it interesting, and you’d be missing the labs as well.

If there is no other science available, I’m guessing stats is the more tolerable option.