<p>Hi</p>
<p>I got a five on AP calculus AB, I really wanted to take Calculus BC
but the school did not offer BC.</p>
<p>I am moving to a new school which actually offers Calculus BC
I am confident I would get a five if I took it</p>
<p>My question is do you think it's a waste of time to take BC after studying another
year of calculus? How do Ivy's look at it to have a 5 on Calculus AB when I apply for computer
science major. Should I not take BC and study other things instead of going back to what I've learned?</p>
<p>What other things would you take instead?</p>
<p>Note that many of the top schools in computer science are not Ivy League schools (MIT, CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, UIUC, Washington, Texas, Caltech, Georgia Tech, etc.).</p>
<p>At my school, some people take BC after taking AB. We actually are not allowed to take BC without being either concurrently enrolled in AB or have taken it the previous year. I have a few friends that took AB junior year and BC senior year. BC is only 1 semester at our school, whereas AB is a full year.</p>
<p>Take BC. It will be easy, but probably more worthwhile than anything else you could take.</p>
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<p>I really do not understand why schools would require a student two grade levels ahead in math to take calculus over two years (one year for AB followed by a year for the rest of the BC stuff).</p>
<p>When I was in high school there was only one calculus class – BC. Most of the students were one year ahead of the normal math sequence, while a rare student every few years was two years ahead (and was generally assumed to be easily able to handle the BC course as a junior in high school). Later, when calculus demand increased to two classes’ worth of students, they made one class BC and one class AB – a student chose either one for the year after precalculus (though they presumably encouraged the better students to choose BC).</p>
<p>^Yeah, idk why my school does that.</p>