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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calc isn’t just for stem but for the social sciences.[/quote]

But Stats is so much more useful for most kids. And that’s frustrating.  For many kids, saying, you want to go to a good college, take Calc not Stats is essentially saying you should do something pointless but hard for sake of saying you did something hard.  Of course the world needs a certain number of people who understand Calculus. But the this country needs everyone to have a basic understanding of stats. It’s fundamental to accurately assessing risks and not be the moron who keeps insisting the polls were wrong in 2016 because they showed HRC with a 70% chance of winning.

I’m a lawyer and I constantly draw on high school stats. I haven’t used Calculus since I left high school. My college kid in geophysics an Engineer DN needs calculus OTOH. My humanities kid just doesn’t. But will take it to check a college box. And when she says it’s pointless— she’s right.    She’s really want to go to college in Canada or Great Britain, but with COVID, she also has to apply in the US. Canada and Great Britain do not care if their Arts students have Calculus. You need enough math to hit the SAT cutoff. They care a lot about how your metrics in the program you are applying for. And it’s so sensible.  We really need to overhaul what we consider fundamental in education. But that’s a different post.

Team Stats. It’s not how a lot of colleges see it though. [/quote]

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