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She will have to take some placement tests before she can discuss classes.
She needs to review algebra and precalculus before she takes it since it verifies she’s “calculus ready” (and may have forgotten since she took the SAT).
She should also check what previous students have said about their preparation: calc 2 (Math 141) is weed out and really difficult, have students from her school done well or would they recommend reviewing/improving knowledge in calc 1? Same thing for AP Stats and Stats 200: if you got a 5, are you ready to jump into Stats 300 (a class designed for the AP Stats students)?
For Gen eds, she could take all the AP credit she wishes and just commit to “tasting” at least a class per subject/field since college is to discover new things - could be climate disasters in movies, classical Greek myths, intro to Swahili, anything. There are literally hundreds.

There are several paths for Math and Stats majors - applied, actuarial, industry, grad school…
But the first year is similar. VERY oddly, the official recommended path frontloads math courses, keeping Gen eds for jr/sr years, when typically students are taking advanced and more specialized classes in their major. A normal schedule would have 2-3 Gen eds and 2-3 major-related classes (totaling 5 per semester) freshman year, with only 1 gen ed per semester jr/sr year and 3-4 major-related classes. Below you’ll find a more “normal” schedule.

Covering all Math and Stats options, she would typically take
Fall
Math 140/Calc1
Stats 200 (or 300)
English 30H (or 137 in Schreyer)
A social science or humanities subject she’s interested in
Freshman seminar

Spring
CompSci 131 (works for both Stats and Math, the other choices don’t work for the other major)
Math 141 (calc 2)
Stats 184 (R programming)
Econ 102 (Microeconomics)
CAS 100 (Communication) or 138 if Schreyer

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