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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever you do, no AP Calc BC. My senior flamed out, even though he's good in math.[/quote]

I wouldn't say no AP calc Bc.  However, I highly recommend you do Calc AB first.  My kid struggled with BC simply because the teacher makes it extremely hard to prepare the kids for the AP test.  IN her 10+ years of teaching BC (and 30-50 students each year), she has over 99.9% earning 4s or 5s and over 75% earning 5s.  So who cares that my kid got their first B- ever fall senior year.  They earned a 5 on the AP test, started in Calc 3 and earned a B+ at good school (and considering my kid was sick half of fall freshman year and had a difficult adjustment to college, I'd say an A- was awesome---they were extremely sick the day of the first midterm and hadn't been sleeping due to an ear infection so needless to say the grade was bad and they pulled their way back from a 45% to get an A- in the class without a curve.  ).

AP stats is significantly easier and I highly recommend taking it.  Almost every major will benefit from stats---STEm as well as the humanities and social sciences will use stats.  AP stats is not-calc based but will prep your kid well for the future if they need a calc based stats class for their major. [/quote]

+1.  BC is needed if you are applying to tech majors in top schools.  Those institutions want to see the student take the most rigorous courses available to him or her in college[/quote]

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