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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also perfectly acceptable option to do AB junior year and BC senior year (this is from multiple sources).[/quote]

My kid took AB as a junior and BC as a senior.  Because much of the material is the same/similar, he thought he got a good foundation doing it that way.  He is currently a Math/CS double major at William and Mary.[/quote]

I have a PhD in a STEM area and this is what I recommend to kids interested in STEM who ask me.  (I also recommend they consider taking Intro Calc again at the college level too rather than skipping it).  But for a kid not planning to major in STEM, AB Calc is fine.  I would add in AP Stats their senior year if they take it their junior year though because some schools want 4 years of math in HS and it's better to just be sure.  Plus stats is useful and not too onerous and if they are a social science major or business major they will need it.  And if they are a humanities/arts major they maybe be able to use the AP exam score to get out of a gen ed math credit (and it's often easier to score higher on the AP Stats than the AP Calc for non-STEM folks).[/quote]

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