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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  DD is a strong humanities and English student (good GPA because of her non-STEM classes with Math being the lowest and anomalous grade) so she will be targeting top 25 schools and UMich, UVA, and maybe UCLA.  She will not be applying to any Ivies.  We're just concerned whether Statistics vs. calculus will be viewed as a negative by strong schools because they believe it indicates that the student was not willing to push themselves within the offered curriculum?  Or do the top schools not care about the Math track because the student is clearly a history/English/humanities and foreign langauge kid.   [/quote]

I posted on the first page. I'm the PP whose DD did exactly what you describe and took prob/stat senior year. I'm curious: As an English/history student, is there any particular reason your DD is not looking at strong liberal arts colleges where she would have a far better professor-to-student ratio and much smaller, seminar-type classes throughout college including as a freshman? Just noting that for humanities students, yes, large schools can be great and there are terrific humanities programs out there at very large schools, but I wouldn't rule out all LACs if a student was into discussion, paper writing, etc. DD looked at UVA closely and liked its programs but in the end the size of classes turned her off it and now she's at a LAC (it's ranked in the top 20 among LACs if rank matters to you) where she has no more than 15 people in most freshman classes. Just something for your DD to think about. [/quote]

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