Would College Care: MATH FOR SENIOR YR?!?!

Applying to College
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<p>ok I was planning to take AP Calc AB in my senior year. In fact, I HATE math with a passion. I am tired of it. I am taking 5 APs besides calc AB for my senior year smh..</p>

<p>I am looking forward to major in neuro-psychology or general psychology (I have internships and stuff), thus solving numbers is not my interest at all.</p>

<p>So, my question is, Would college care if I drop a math class next year? (maybe i'll take AP Stat instead)</p>

<p>Do they prefer taking math class for 4 yr straight, even though it has nothing to do with the interest of my major (I know I might have to take mendatory math class in college..but still)??</p>

<p>I really don't feel like I am taking it. So please help me out!!</p>

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<p>Take Stats. It will be a nice break from higher math and it counts as a math course.</p>

<p>You will eventually need to take Calculus for your major, but that can wait until you are in college.</p>

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<p>My counselor told me that I needed to take a math my senior years or some colleges would not accept me on that alone. I don’t know the entire truth of this statement, but she only told me after I had taken all the math classes at the school besides one that was lower, so I have to go back down on the math difficulty scale so to say. I already have 12 math credits to boot, and did not plan on taking any more. I would have saved a math for senior year had I known. </p>

<p>It was great to get that information at the end of junior year, NOT. It would have been more helpful when we were planning the junior year course sheet. Oh well.</p>

<p>The difficulty depends on the teacher you get comparing stats and calc. I’d go for calc though, so to speak, its not that hard, or even take both. </p>

<p>Jamie</p>

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<p>taking math for 4 years is always a good idea- especially calc.</p>

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<p>Yup, take stats. Stats is important for psychology, isn’t it?
(…According to my friend who took Psychology AP, anyway.)</p>

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<p>Psychology is full of math! It is based on scientific research and there are a lot of numbers. AP Stat will help you out more than AP Calc but some schools want to see the calc. What kind of colleges are you looking at? All top colleges want to see math in your senior year but AP Stat will work for most.</p>

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<p>taking AP Calc is a good idea because it is one of the very few high school courses that actually has some predictive value for how you’d do at college level work…it is significantly more interesting material than the elementary math you’ve learned.</p>

<p>also, please do not say you are “tired” of math. in the eyes of any decent quant, you don’t know any math yet.</p>

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<p>Check the schools you are applying to in order to see if the psychology major allows you to use AP Statistics or a non-calculus statistics course for the major. Many social studies majors commonly require a more in-depth calculus-based statistics course, since a lot of social studies involves statistical analysis of data.</p>

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<p>Depends on what school you’ve been accepted to, but if you’ve been accepted to a top 30 school, you should almost definitely take senior math.
My recommendation is Stat.</p>

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<p>What if the student took AP Calc BC as a junior? Is it necessary to have a math senior year? Student has not taken Stats, but doesn’t want to.</p>

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<p>^Again that depends on the college and major you choose.
If you’re doing engineering, taking a math course senior year even if you have AP Calc BC is strongly recommended. And Stats is always good.
I’m taking it in my senior year :)</p>

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<p>A student highly motivated in math may find AP Statistics to be disappointing after completing AP Calculus BC as a junior. Such students may want to take college/university sophomore level math courses (or calculus-based statistics) at community college instead.</p>