<p>What looks better to top colleges? Honors Precalculus or AP Statistics. </p>
<p>I am about to be a senior and deciding on my math course. </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Also, if you could help,</p>
<p>AP environmental vs. AP bio vs. Honors Physics. </p>
<p>Also, if honors physics isnt an option, how about ap enviro vs. ap bio?
and ap enviro vs. ap stat</p>
<p>Which looks better to a top college?</p>
<p>I'd say preclac, just because in my school system, Stats is a "math elective" and can be taken pretty much at any point during your math "career" in high school. Precalc, on the other hand, is and upper level math course with some definite prerequisites</p>
<p>it depends. stat looks better, but you need to have calculus to really be competitive at a top college. Drop your electives and take AP bio and honors physics, you really need chem, bio, physics to be a super attractive applicant.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that I will not be able to take AP Calculus AB or BC in my high school career since I will be a senior.</p>
<p>take stats and pre-calc concurrently. that looks the best, and a lot of 'sources' reccomend doing that ( including CB).</p>
<p>wait sorry, i know this is stupid.. what does cb stand for?</p>
<p>^ College Board</p>
<p>Precalc fo sho</p>
<p>At my school precalc is required to take statistics. Anyway, I would still go with precalc, considering you are going to be applying to some relatively more selective colleges. Your choice of science depends. Which ones have you taken already? Bio and chem I guess? If you are going for a math/science related major, Physics, either honors OR college prep is a BIG plus because it involves a lot of critical thinking with math. I took it last year. However, you must be sure you really know your trigonometry when you take the class.</p>
<p>I don't think I can speak for anyone though when I talk about the actual difficulty of Honors Physics. At my school, honors classes are taught out of college textbooks, even though it isn't an AP class. Therefore, my Honors Physics class was PAINFUL! (This is coming from someone who got straight "A"s for Honors Precalc the same year. Again, in a college textbook.) I am not sure how your school teaches, but consider your choice carefully. Just to humor you, here is an example of one of the problems that can be on a test in my class:</p>
<p>Kids are playing on a basketball court on the roof of a building. The ball bounces over the fence towards the ground where a man finds it and decides to throw it back up to the children. The building is 100 meters high and the fence is 2 meters high. The man is standing 10 meters from the building. He throws it at a 62 degree angle to the horizontal axis. The ball's mass is 2000 grams. How much force (in newtons) should the man use so the ball just makes it over the fence?</p>
<p>Part 2: How far does the ball travel after making it over the fence?</p>
<p>Note: All the numbers in this problem were made up.</p>
<p>First of all, some of the units aren't correct and need to be converted. (Grams to Kilograms) Also, to find the force that is used, you need to backsolve to find out at what speed the man threw the ball. (Using numerous equations and trig) Then you have to use one of newtons laws to take the mass of the ball times the velocity to get the force used. You THEN use that force to go forwards AGAIN until you are back on top of the fence and you can calculate part 2.</p>
<p>Up to the challenge?</p>
<p>Who gives a damn how many effing newtons it takes? Like seriously.</p>
<p>You will need to have Precal. Most likely, your college will expect you to take calculus. Can you possibly take both?</p>
<p>Take Precalc. The "AP" may look pretty, but not taking Precalc will look bad on your application...</p>
<p>My schools a *****, last year they had AP Statistics and so I picked it for this year, but suddenly in June they had a change of heart and demoted it to stupid College-Prepatory Statistics.....so im going ot have to self study AP Staitics myself</p>
<p>do you guys thing precalc and stat would look better than precalc and an extra science ap?</p>
<p>Take Precalc and AP Bio. It probably won't look good if the highest math you have is Algebra II and then Stats which really more like a different subject.</p>
<p>But if you haven't taken physics yet, you might want to take physics instead of AP Bio.</p>
<p>precalc and either bio or honor physics. Enviro and Stats are so-called AP Lites.</p>
<p>If you've had Algebra II and Trigonometry, I don't recommend taking precalc. However, I'd advise you to take AP stats cuz--I know this is a bad and flimsy reason--it's an AP!</p>
<p>I would actually say that not taking Pre-Calc takes away from the fact that the OP is taking an AP math class, and more.</p>
<p>So, what have you done so far? Algebra II?</p>
<p>AP stats is a joke... (math is my worst subject) AP stats is so damn easy.. it was like, elementary math word problems, except you change the fabricated scenarios (dividing pizza among your friends to paying your employees...).. almost... you do need to learn some new things... nothing a math retard couldn't handle.</p>