<p>Hey guys I was wondering what would look better on my college app when I apply to colleges. Right now I am a junior in highschool. Precalc is really hard for me but I can manage to get a 80 in the class. If I take statistics I can easily get a 90. I was wondering does it matter on college apps if I take Statistics over precalc? Will it matter a lot? </p>
<p>-SupaHotFire</p>
<p>… Why not both? That is what I did my junior year.</p>
<p>Colleges WANT to see that you’ve challenged yourself, and if you don’t take pre-cal, you’re (obviously) locked out of calc your senior year.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that many majors require advanced math: business, economics, biology… If you don’t take pre-cal in high school, you’ll be stuck in remedial!</p>
<p>In my school they don’t let you take two maths at the same time. I can take precalc in my senior year and take calc in college.</p>
<p>^Then take stats this year and self-study basic pre-cal concepts so that by the time you get to senior year, you’re not struggling.</p>
<p>yes but i’m just wondering if it makes a big difference on a college app if i take statistics instead of precalc my junior year.</p>
<p>Depends on the level of colleges you plan to apply to. The more selective the college, the more likely that viable canidates will have taken calc, which I assume has precalc as a prerequisite?</p>
<p>Well the main college I wanna get accepted into his Stonybrook. If I take statistics it’s gonna be on my college app instead of Precalc. Basically on your transcript would u rather have a 80 in precalc or a 90 in statistics?</p>
<p>SUNY Stonybrook isn’t going to be expecting you to take eleventy-bajillion APs or anything. As long as the rest of your transcript isn’t completely inane (ie, isn’t 4 years’ worth of P.E. and home economics instead of actual academic classes), and your SAT scores are up to scratch, you should be fine.</p>
<p>take stats - - you’ll use it a lot more!</p>
<p>Take precalc…and btw ur name @supahotfire made me lmao</p>
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<p>I doubled up in stats & math sophomore year.</p>