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[quote=Anonymous]Just expressing some frustration with this very thing - I went to MIT and work in STEM but even I think  stats is way, way more useful than calculus - even to kids going into some sciences where you don't need differential equations, etc. Stats would be the more useful class for 90% of kids and specifically is a good intro to the concepts that get taught in a lot of first year biology, chem and social sciences classes, and is crucial to folks who will do a lot of data analytics in their work in the future - which in the next 20 years will be basically most educated people.  Literally every day I hear scientifically educated folks get things wrong because they never learned stats in a concentrated way, but instead kind of osmosed stats through their science coursework. So if kids are involved in science at all, do calc instead in HS because it's still considered the gold standard in college admissions and I do think you are at a disadvantage if you don't have it - it's a stupid legacy thing, but it's true.  But if your kid is a social science kid or humanities and your goal is to give them a good foundation for college I would say a good year of stats in high school will be more valuable to them doing well in those first year science/social science classes. If you need to take calculus to graduate and that's going to be your terminal math class, just take it through community college and go on with your life. [/quote]

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