Senior Year: No math or science... yay or nay?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hey guys.
I'm in a small dilemma. This year, I signed up to take a calculus class at my school. Unfortunately, I got a messy schedule and had to change it, so I had to drop the class to accomodate my mandatory classes (tear.) As seniors, we are given the opportunity to take either a math or science rather than both, but there are no other math classes I can take, so I had to end up taking Earth Science. It was... horrible. The students, the way the teacher tried to control the class.... it is not a environment where I fit in. Anyway, I was reccommended by my guidance counselor to take it, but heres the problem:
a. I recieved all of my science credits and passed my regents with honors.
b. I am not entering a science/medical field.
c. Since I have the option to take either math or sciene, I was ahead in math and already have my four years of it on my transcript, since I took Algebra in middle school. Would this be counted as part of the situation since I was ahead of the game? </p>

<p>Would colleges be okay if I did not take math or science this year, espcially cause I have the four years of math on my transcipt. Instead, I am taking AP Lit, College Spanish, Honors Government, Honors Journalism and Art.. other challenging classes but ones that are obviously not a part of math or science. Aiming for the businsss field</p>

<p>SORRY for the long message.. I always have to be clear on these forums... ALSO I AM NOT APPLYING TO ANY IVIES NOR ANY SCHOOL CLOSE TO AN IVY... BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO. I will be applying to schools in state, public and private.</p>

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<p>I have a similar question, except my daughter is only a sophomore. She is in Calculus this year and will take IB Math2 as a Junior. Does she really have to do a 4th year of math? She plans to major in Linguistics (not science/engineering), but would like to apply Ivy League.</p>

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<p>My calculus teacher told this to a girl who was debating dropping Calc:</p>

<p>Not even worrying about what colleges will think, it is better to have some type of math senior year to keep oneself fresh with mathematical concepts.</p>

<p>It varies from person to person, but this girl isn’t the greatest at math. She’s not horrible, but she just needs things explained to her. Some people might do fine with no math senior year, but it just varies from person to person. I’ve been in advanced math classes since elementary school but I still can’t imagine taking a year off of math and then going into a college math class…</p>