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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, pp here and I misremembered.  What Wisconsin says is “Courses that will not fulfill this requirement include statistics.”  When my kid was applying, he was an intended humanities major who wanted to jump off the math train and went back and forth about what math to take senior year.

For him, the choice was between Calc and Stats so he took Calc bc of that language on the website. So I remembered it as needed Calc (but I was wrong).  Sorry to worry anyone![/quote]

Wisconsin changed their language last year! They used to flat out say that they expected calc if offered. You remembered correctly.[/quote]

Nope. 
The old page (through 2023) said "We would highly recommend taking math your senior year and advancing through [b]pre-calculus or calculus, [/b]if available"

https://web.archive.org/web/20230629193455/https://admissions.wisc.edu/can-i-get-in-to-uw-madison/

https://web.archive.org/web/20220621154517/https://admissions.wisc.edu/can-i-get-in-to-uw-madison/

The recent change was to drop the encouragement for even precalculus. [/quote]

Expected = highly encouraged if available. Potato, poTAHto. 🙄[/quote]

For a student who takes precalc as a junior, calculus is available senior year, and choosing stats instead is choosing against maximum rigor and will be held against the student.

But for a student who takes precalc as a senior, calculus is not available. Precalculus represents the maximum rigor available to that student, and they won’t be penalized for not reaching calculus.[/quote]

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