<p>So, I'm a junior this year, and I'm taking AP calculus BC this year, and next year I'm going to take AP Stats, since there is nothing left for me to take math-wise. But my friend told me that I should take Calculus AB this year and BC next year, and said that would look better to colleges since AB is a more challenging course than AP Stats. But I would think that taking BC this year would look better to colleges, since I skipped AB and took the hardest math class available. Plus, I'd rather take BC now because I'd rather take the easier class senior year.</p>
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<p>uh</p>
<p>I mean, if you’re taking BC, taking AB would be pretty dumb. Might as well stick with what you’re doing.</p>
<p>I wasn’t saying stats was easy, just easier than Calc BC. And what other math is there to take senior year?</p>
<p>Well, exactly, take BC this year and Stats next year.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine there’s much else, but dude, we don’t go to the same school. I have no idea what math classes would be left for you to take.</p>
<p>You’re missing the point. I’m asking whether colleges would like it better if I took BC this year and stats next year, or AB this year and BC next year. I had assumed the former, but now I’m not sure.</p>
<p>The former. Both Elleya and I initially thought you meant you would take BC then AB, since you said easier class, and its meaning was ambiguous. Doing the latter is pointless if you can do the former.</p>
<p>Take BC and then stats. Colleges recognize that hs have limits on what they can offer. Alternatively, if you don’t want to do stats, you could do what many students at my school do, and take advanced math at a community college.</p>
<p>colleges like students who do what they like rather than what they think colleges like</p>
<p>^^ Well said. That’s makes the student unique.</p>
<p>Another thing to think about is that you will get both Statistics credit and Calculus credit for college if you take AP Statistics and AP Calculus BC, whereas you’ll only get Calculus credit if you take AP Calculus AB and BC.</p>
<p>So either Statistics and Calculus credit or the same amount of Calculus credit and no statistics credit.</p>