What is useful the real world has little bearing in this:) and you 100% will need to take stats in college, given all your interests. And I would bet $$ none of the people telling you to take stats are college counselors looking at highly selective schools.
Many kids will be beyond BC Calc, in practice.
FWIW I went to an ivy ages ago. Pretty much everyone had taken calculus, even then. The ones that hadn’t were super arty or something.