<p>Hi,
I'm sort of torn on which math to take!</p>
<p>AP Calc BC or AP Statistics!</p>
<p>My gpa is a 3.93 and here are the courses in math that I have taken:</p>
<p>Algebra II/Trig (Honors): A, A+
Pre-Calculus (Honors): A, A
AP Calc AB: B, projected B (I get As, and then I bomb my finals. I have no idea why it only happened this year!)</p>
<p>My AP Calc AB and the AP Calc BC teacher both urged me to take AP Calc BC.</p>
<p>However, my counselor and mom are telling me not to because I have 4 other APs (including a VERY VERY time-consuming AP Art, not hard but it'll eat up my time), 2 varsity sports, other extracurriculars, AND because I'll be a senior, I will have to do apps.</p>
<p>What are your suggestions? DO I REALLY NEED AP CALC BC IN HIGH SCHOOL TO IMPRESS TOP ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS?</p>
<p>No, but it does show the universities that you're committed to taking a rigorous courseload to take four years of math. Is there a trigonometry class you could take? Because that's what you'll really use the most in architecture is trig and geometry. And if you haven't already taken it, physics helps too.</p>
<p>your first semester of bc will be review, which is really when you need to worry about grades anyway.-- I would take bc and I could be wrong but I think architecture schools in general like students taking calc because it is a different way of thinking( from algebra)- and they really like the “different way of thinking” thing </p>
<p>Keep in mind I just went though the AB junior year-- BC senior year-- (finishing up BC)-- so I may be biased</p>