Should I take Pre-Cal or Stats?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I've considered myself pretty good at math until I met Algebra II this year. I've been making straight C's (All 3 grading periods this semester have been 80s), and I'm just failing to understand it all (well, all of the radical crap is getting me). Next year I'll be a junior, so should I take Pre-Cal or Stats/Algebra III? I would like to be prepared for college and stuff, but I also don't want to end up not getting in since I have a 2.5. I know Calculus would be best for me if I plan on going into engineering, but, like I said, I don't want to figure out that I don't like it and suck at it at the cost of destroying my GPA.</p>

<p>Also, for reference, here are the majors I'm looking at.
-Mechanical Engineering
-Journalism
-BBA
-Accounting
-Psychology
-Music Ed. (Not too sure about this one, though)</p>

<p>And my GPA right now is around 3.1, with me taking all honors classes in my 2 years (and Advanced Honors English both years).</p>

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<p>what colleges are you shooting for?</p>

<p>just do what's best for your GPA, you can always take Calc in college. </p>

<p>although i rarely hear of anyone graduating HS without at least taking Pre-Calc.</p>

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<p>I'm a junior and I'm taking both. I think Stats is a solid class as a supplement to your normal math class, but not as a substitute for precalc or calc.</p>

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<p>Whatever you want, I'm in precalc and I find it totally useless.</p>

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<p>Precal. All my friends say stats is where fun goes to die.</p>

<p>DP</p>

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<p>At my school, it's AP Stat that's a joke and Precal is harder.</p>

<p>Isn't there a grade prerequisite for either of those classes at your school? If you're getting a C in Algebra II, I doubt you'd do well in Precal.</p>

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<p>Might as well go for precalc. I got low Bs in Alg II and straight A's in Precalc and Calculus. Something just clicked, I guess. Probably because I was so enthusiastic about precalc and was bored of doing the same algebra for several years.</p>

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<p>Pre Calc. A lot of colleges require you to take Calculus so you'll be more prepared. You'll have to take pre-calc eventually to get to calc</p>

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<p>Take Precalculus. It's pretty much a necessary stepping stone for calculus, which you'll need especially if you're going into engineering. Stats is a good course but is fairly simple and also is not really a prerequisite for anything you'll need.</p>

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<p>Take Pre-Calc, but maybe since you're already having difficulty in math, take a non-honors class instead. It would look better than not taking Pre-Calc at all.</p>

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<p>PreCalc; I agree w/ajwichin.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but I find precalc 90% review from algebra last year.....</p>

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<p>Yea I agree. I took Pre-Cal my junior year and it was pretty easy...it was basically algebra 2 again, but more in depth. I took AP Stat for the first week of my senior year and transfered out because it had to much to do with graphing and interpreting...which i dislike doing when it comes to math.</p>