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Anonymous wrote:About half of humanities admits at Princeton did not take any Calculus.

About half of US high schools don't offer it, though. So the question is whether there is an admissions hit if your HS offers it but you don't take it.

I think AP Stat is acceptable for a humanities degree seeker. It is actually more relevant.

If the college major does not require calculus, at the specific institution, that's a decent signal.

Economics (social science) and business often recommend calculus. In that case, I recommend taking calculus to assist with college adaptation. It's typically much more difficult at the college level. Pre-exposure to the material could help.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD took AP Calc (AB). She applied to a college where we found out after the fact that for her major, they would "only consider applicants taking AP Calc (BC)", but this ended up not true, had zero baring in her case and they offered her a place on that major.

So even when it's in writing there's not always a hard and fast rule about it, especially if they are looking at various other aspects of your application.

Which school and major requires AP Calc BC?

Plenty. University of British Columbia for one.

No, it doesn’t? For American students, even the engineering major only requires precalc. https://you.ubc.ca/applying-ubc/requirements/international-high-schools/#united-states

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Anonymous wrote:My DD took AP Calc (AB). She applied to a college where we found out after the fact that for her major, they would "only consider applicants taking AP Calc (BC)", but this ended up not true, had zero baring in her case and they offered her a place on that major.

So even when it's in writing there's not always a hard and fast rule about it, especially if they are looking at various other aspects of your application.

Which school and major requires AP Calc BC?

Plenty. University of British Columbia for one.

Anonymous wrote:Got into UVA with AP stat. No intensified math track and no Calc.

Anonymous wrote: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.