Should I take statistics or calculus senior year?

If you struggled in regular pre-calculus and have an academic interest that would not benefit from some exposure to calculus while in high school (humanities, social sciences, etc.), you probably would take statistics.

Should I take AP Calculus senior year?

If you want a lighter senior year while still having a challenging schedule, I would take calculus, especially since your ap calculus credit may only get you out of an introductory prerequisite course in college (you might end up in a harder math class since your major doesn’t have much math).

Do colleges prefer stats or Calc?

AP Statistics is considered to be a strong math course by most colleges. An outstanding grade in AP Statistics would look better on a transcript than a weak grade in AP Calculus.

Should I take AP Calc or statistics?

If you are going to be a humanities major or a business major, then take AP Stats. Stats is important for all business majors, and even for psychology or political science and Pre-Med as well. Alternatively, you can take AP Calculus or a dual-enrollment Calc or online college calc.

Is calculus or statistics more useful?

Calculus is more useful for students pursuing majors in science or engineering. Statistics, on the other hand, is not only necessary for being an informed citizen, but is useful for almost every major and career.

What’s better calculus or statistics?

Statistics does tend to be harder than calculus, especially at the advanced levels. If you take a beginning statistics course, there will be very simple concepts that are rather easy to work out and solve. Overall, calculus is a much narrower category of math than statistics.

Do you need to take statistics in college?

For most college majors, you are likely to be required to take a statistics class whether you like it or not. For example, when I was an undergraduate, I majored in Psychology and was required to take an introduction to statistics course in order to take higher level psychology classes.

Is AP Statistics worth taking?

Taking the AP® Statistics exam is definitely worth your time, effort, and energy. Perhaps the most important benefit of taking the AP® Statistics exam is the financial benefit. Since you get college credit for passing the AP® Statistics exam, this means you won’t have to pay for college credit hours to take the course.

Is AP Calc or statistics harder?

Yes, AP Statistics and AP Calculus are both advanced level math courses, but you and I both know which one is harder. (AP Calc is harder.

Should I take AP Statistics in high school or college?

For prospective science majors, especially physics, engineering, and chemistry majors, it is better to concentrate on calculus AB/BC in high school than to take AP Stats. Take statistics in college when it is a real math class instead of a technique memorization class.

Should I take AP Statistics or Calculus AB/BC?

Their retention of both calculus and statistics will end up being poor by that time. For prospective science majors, especially physics, engineering, and chemistry majors, it is better to concentrate on calculus AB/BC in high school than to take AP Stats.

Is AP Calculus a good choice in high school?

If a student has no intention of majoring in science or math in college and their prospective college will not require them to take calculus, then I would agree that AP Stats is a good choice in high school.

Should I take Pre-Calculus or math senior year?

If you did not take pre-calculus you would probably take something along the lines of an “Introduction to Statistics” or you might choose to take no math at all senior year (make sure to discuss this with your guidance office before deciding on this path). What about taking both? Let’s not forget that seniors have electives in their schedules!