<p>Is it beneficial to take math senior year if I have already completed 5 years of high school math? I have taken math all the way up to Calculus AB. The next logical class would be Multivariable Calculus, and I know every school requires 4 years of math, but there are other classes that I am more interested in taking.</p>
<p>Take what you’re interested in. No college expects you to go beyond AP Calc, but I’d say it’s a plus.</p>
<p>depends on your academic interests. if you want to be a math/science major you probably should take math but if you’re majoring in something like history it is less important</p>
<p>You may get a bit rusty at math if you take a year off… just sayin</p>
<p>I agree with @Linger but if the other classes you’re taking are heavily math-related (like AP Physics) or if you’re in like Math team or something, it would probably be okay.</p>
<p>Calc AB to Multi? That’s only “1 semester” of calculus and Multi is the 3rd semester of the calculus sequence. I just find that odd.</p>
<p>I would advise taking math every year.</p>
<p>Yeah my school doesn’t encourage taking AB one year and BC the next. My counselor is pushing me to do Multi even though I’m taking AP Physics C. My other option would be AP Stat but I’m really not interested in that.</p>
<p>You’re counselor has no idea what she’s talking about if she’s telling you to go from AB to Multi. Take BC if you want. If not try Calc 2, and THEN multi. It’s not a big deal if you don’t take math, but if you do plan on doing something math/science/engineering related, you probably should.</p>
<p>I don’t have any personal experience with AP Physics C, but it seems that that class would have a lot of math in it. Even though it is a science course, that would be enough to keep you from getting rusty.</p>
<p>Like others have already said, you’d be missing a full semester of information if you skip calc 2 and go straight to multi. The Calc AB curriculum doesn’t cover sequences and series, polar and parametrics, and a few other things covered in Calc BC. Besides, many multivar courses require that you have already completed calc 2. AB doesn’t give credit for calc 2.</p>
<p>Take either BC or calc 2.</p>
<p>or self-study the four or so chapters of information, basically {BC} \ {AB} = extra integration techniques, taylor series, conic sections, and some more applications of integration. also a lot of this is not very relevant to multivariable (and other kids coming in will have similar backgrounds to you) so you’ll have time to learn it on your own.</p>
<p>Can you take Ap calc bc? Maybe Ap statistics?</p>