<p>I'm not a particularly strong math student (at least not relative to many people in my school), and I'm looking to go into Classics or something of the sort. Next year, as a senior, I could either take AB Calc or BC Calc. Does it screw me over for top colleges (Williams/Swat/Brown/Chicago/etc) to take AB instead of BC?? I currently have an A/A- in honors precalc and I think BC would be possibly excessively challenging, especially combined with my rigorous courseload for next year...</p>
<p>but I don't know. Does AB look like a bs class?</p>
<p>AB = slower introduction to calculus, approximates a semester of college freshman calculus over a year</p>
<p>BC = full speed calculus, approximates a year of college freshman calculus over a year</p>
<p>I recommend AP Calculus AB! At my high school, we don’t even have the option of going straight to BC, AB is a prerequisite course, so I don’t think you’ll be disadvantaged at all. Your grades/AP score will probably be better, you’ll still get college credit, and you don’t even plan on majoring in mathematics.</p>
<p>The thing is, we don’t have the option of doing AB and then BC. Until senior year, our math is tracked as either honors or extended honors, and seniors choose which AP Calc class to take. So I’d be taking the easier one with no chance of moving up the next year (aka it’s not like I could’ve taken AB in junior year and given myself a more rigorous schedule in senior year through that route), but…at least most honors math kids take either AB or Honors Calc??</p>
<p>I do think my grades will be much better in AB, though, especially because I don’t have a great teacher this year.</p>