<p>Hey! I'm a freshman in high school right now and I'm trying to decide if I should take Calc II (BC) or Calc III for sophomore year. If I take Calc III next year, then I'll have to work SUPER HARD in summer and next year. I don't really know if Wharton likes people to take really challenged math courses or not in high school and I don't really know how much do they focus on math. I would like to be major in entrepreneurship or something relates to finance. So, anybody could give me an idea on how much do they focus on math and if I should take Calc II or Calc III next year? Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Calc BC is already really advanced for a sophomore. I would spend your summer doing something more… fun? instead. I don’t really want to say fun but less… a continuation of school. Maybe do a precollege class since at least they usually have social activities and stuff or see if theres a program where you haven’t already missed the deadline. Good luck :)</p>
<p>I took BC as a Junior and some more advanced stuff at a local community college. I don’t know how far your school goes in math, but I think it looks good to show enough interest to get out of your high school, if you’ve completed everything they have to offer.</p>
<p>Relax–I am sure Wharton will NOT mind at all if you take BC next year and then calc III during junior year. No need to kill yourself. In fact, a large percentage of Wharton Applicants take AB/BC during their senior year, so you will be ahead of the crew either way.</p>
<p>I agree with all of the above posters that you need not take BC over the summer. However, you should consider the fact that BC will most likely take only half of a year (assuming you took AB already?). When I was a high school sophomore, I took BC for half of the year and then statistics, which is not a very difficult course and can also be completed in half of a year. With that said, you will definitely not be at a disadvantage if you take BC over the summer.</p>
<p>It does help. A fellow classmate and I were both accepted into Wharton, and we both took AP Calc BC sophomore year, as well as Calc 3/Differential Equations.</p>
<p>At my high school, the advanced math track has students taking Calc BC senior year. It begins with Algebra I, then goes through Geometry, then Algebra II/College Algebra/Trig, Analytic Geometry/Discrete Math/the rest of Pre-Calc, then finally Calc BC. There are a few of us (I was one of them) who took it junior year (there is a very small MV calc class for seniors), but we had been in a very small accelerated program since 7th grade. There are no sophomores who take BC calc. So a sophomore definitely does not have to take BC calc if it is not readily available to them. It all depends on your school though, you want to take the most advanced courses offered at your school. Make sure you feel ready though, because it won’t be beneficial for you to take a course like that if you don’t feel it’s the right time. One benefit of my high school having students wait until senior year is that average for the AP is always around 4.9 (probably due to a few seniors slacking off).</p>