Your dad may be right in real life (I don’t know - it’s not my field) - but yeah, for a school like Wharton and Harvard, and other tops, they want rigor. Stats isn’t rigor. Calc is.
Right on the Wharton website it states the following - so you’re early - but in planning for Wharton, you want rigor (which you have) but you want quant - and that’s where calc comes in.
We would like to see:
- an interest in business to fuel positive change to advance the world’s economic and social well-being
- demonstrated leadership
- Strong preparation in mathematics, particularly calculus
PS - there is no trouble with choosing colleges. You are a 10th grader. You are a year too early.
When it comes time, you’ll figure out - what do I want in a school. You simply chose big names - with no regard to anything else - and that’s not an effective method.
But you are way too early. You should be a 15 year old, not a 35 year old!!!
And come back in a year.
You also need your budget situation. It sounds like budget won’t be an issue given your businesses and contacts - as long as mom/dad are ok with spending $360K-$400K - better find out up front.