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[quote=Anonymous]OP, what caught my eye is that you're saying it's what YOU prefer.  That's not cool.  You say he's a strong student with excellent ECs.  That means he has a good head on his shoulders.  Let him make his own decision on something like this.  He's earned that.

To answer your question, while it's been awhile one of my kids got into UVA with AP Stats and without taking AP Calc.  She did have 10 or so AP classes, though, and from what I recalled they were:  Bio, Econ, Environmental Science, Euro and US History, Gov't, English (Lang and Lit), and Spanish (Lang and Lit).  I may have missed one or two.  Did not take AP Chem or Physics, that I know, but did take both at the intensified level earlier in the earlier years of high school.

I had two other kids apply to and get into UVA-level school, and they both took AP Calc.  They both also had 10+ AP classes.

All three had weighted GPAs over a 4.0, but they had blemishes.  The GPAs were not perfect and there were plenty of Bs.

William & Mary's admissions website used to explicitly say -- for years -- that they wanted Calculus over Stat regardless of major, but they've deleted that.  That has to mean something.

Personally, I think that if your kid has an overall strong record but with a lower grade in AP Calc they're probably just as well positioned and maybe better off than they would be with the same record with no AP Calc and a higher grade in AP Stat.  The application isn't going to rise or fall on this one thing.  Taking the class may show that the kid is challenging himself and leaving his comfort zone.

I'd let him decide and not treat this as a life or death decision. [/quote]

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