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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, kids who are truly focused on the humanities (not just pretending to be for an edge) are so rare that I think it's hard to make generalizations about them. If you are applying to colleges with sub-10 percent admissions rates, it is almost certainly safer to take calculus. I doubt taking stats instead would get an application "thrown out" on its own, but the very high percentage of admitted students taking calculus at Harvard and Princeton speaks for itself. That said, my humanities kid who is applying to reasonably selective schools is taking AP Stats and not worrying much about that choice.[/quote]

I agree with this take.  Taking Calc is like "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" back in the day.  But not taking it doesnt mean a student is out.  A student interested in Classical studies that took AP Latin (only about 4,500 do so) and continued to advanced Latin and Attic Greek (even fewer do this) with the only 'blemish' AP Stats and no Calc  - I would think would be in the running.

Why on earth should Calc matter in the situation?

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