Op- again, your pre-professional/utilitarian approach to your HS experience is showing.
You likely won’t ever use trigonometry. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s part of the pre-college curriculum everywhere. You won’t need to “use” Anna Karenina in your grown up life but there is a reason why it’s considered a literary masterpiece.
Stats is “useful” in virtually every field. Or even just reading the newspaper and understanding why vaccines are recommended for certain people but not others, or why some people don’t get chemo and live, and others HAVE chemo AND radiation and don’t survive a similar cancer.
But calculus is still considered part of a rigorous HS curriculum (if your HS offers it). And if Econ is a maybe for you- you will definitely “need” calc. Your dad may not have ever taken an advanced econ class, but you can show him the course catalogue for Econ majors and you can learn together why calc is important.
Some general friendly advice- the course catalogue of any college you are remotely interested in is MUCH more reliable than your HS friends or even your dad. If a college says that a particular course is a pre-requisite, you can take that to the bank.