swim2daend

I hated stats (hence my 3). I would never take it. Take Calc. Calc is fun and it looks better than stats. I think that Calc has more applications than stats does.

bartleby

Well, it depends on two things - how the rest of your resume looks like, and what you plan on doing in college. If the latter is anything having to do with science, math, or engineering, you need that high school calc background. If an admission committee member looking at your application would look and say 'hmm, this seems to be a strong math/science student but not as strong a humanities student' then you need to take AP Calc. But if you are the humanities student, you should feel confident taking AP Stats. This is because of holistic admissions.

(An ordinary white guy with no sob story (me) got into Cal having taken neither.)

bluebayou

^^disagree with bartleby. A way to stand out from the humanities crowd is to take an advanced, rigorous math class, and that would be calc. Strength of senior year is particularly important to Cal adn UCLA.

stephennn

why aren't you taking linear algebra by now. they'll definitely look down on you now.