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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a humanities kid that is fairly good at math, she will be taking pre-calc in 10th and (I assume) AP calc in 11th.  From this thread it seems like AP statistics would be fine in 12th even if she is targeting a top 20 school given her interests.  Is that correct or am I missing something?[/quote]
It may hurt, it is not ideal, but admission to Top 20s is holistic, so admission without calc is not impossible.  Choosing stats over calc, when one has the opportunity to take calc, makes that student's transcript less rigorous.  How much it matters in the end is hard to say, like most other factors.

Couldn't hurt to call an AO and ask. [/quote]

Also top 20 is probably overly broad here. HYPSM you're courting trouble by not taking calc. #15 in the top 20? Possibly less so.[/quote]
+1, yes, exactly.

I think of selectivity as a continuum from roughly top-10, then 10-25, then 25-40, 40-50, 50+.  And of course the importance of calc vs no-calc (for the student who had the opportunity) also rests on the rest of the transcript, and the fact that we are discussing a potential humanities (Eng/history) major, not STEM, not undergrad business, and not econ.[/quote]

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