AP Statistics or PLTW Aerospace Engineering for a Mechanical Engineering Major?

amd2019
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:19:24 +0000

Hi everyone!

So I’m a senior and my school just told me that it was not possible to take both AP Stats and PLTW AE in my senior year (due to class conflicts and class sizes etc.)

I can’t take one of them online because due to my extracurriculars and my other classes I think that it would be too much for me to handle and I don’t want to stress out too much when I have college apps and managing clubs to worry about.

UC’s recommend 4 years of math in high school, and because I already finished AP Calculus BC (which is the highest level of math my school offers) I decided to take AP Statistics.

However, because ap stats isn’t really correlated with engineering as much as PLTW AE is, I don’t know which would seem better in the eyes of UC admissions officers. (personally if given the choice I’d prefer to take AE, but this is the matter of whether I take 3 or 4 years of math when 4 is much preferred by the UC’s for STEM majors.)

Any advice? Which should I take?