<p>I agree with what everyone is saying, but I wanted to put my D’s experience out there as well for what it’s worth. She is majoring in theatre at Northwestern. She did take AP Calc–but she likes math well enough. She got a 5 on the AP “AB” test and this did enable her to skip a mandatory Math requirement at NU. She never has to take Math in college again, which she thinks is great. That was her unexpected bonus. </p>
<p>To second glassharmonica, if your school has Stats, you can take honors or AP Stats. My oldest took this instead of Calc and liked it a lot better as he saw more direct real-world experience. You can take Stats and then study separately for the AP test too if you wanted. </p>
<p>Another option is to take a summer class at a local community college to relieve you of a packed schedule your senior year. My D did this too–she took German in the summer because she finds languages harder than Calc! Probably what some people think of Math, she thinks of languages…Everyone learns differently. Anyway, summer community colleges classes are another great option if anyone wants to consider it.</p>
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SO true-- for my three older girls, not taking calc was a no-brainer, and they did not struggle nearly so much with languages. For D4, taking stats was my idea, but she would have been okay with calc. It’s languages that are very difficult for her. We have to remember that some people actually enjoy learning math, or at least don’t find it terribly difficult. Also true that community colleges can be a great resource while in high school.</p>
<p>You would not have to take Calc as a BFA major. However, I was looking at marrying the PACE BA with an Arts & Entertainment Management major. Since Arts & Entertainment is out of the Business department, Calc is required. (Which would be a hard sell for my D as well!)</p>
<p>I think there is a misconception amongst some BFA applicants regarding such things as math etc requirements. I took a quick peek at some random BFA programs : Pace, Point Park and Purchase (woa did not realize the alliteration of my randomness) and although calc per se was not a requirement Math is. So bottom line, most or many BFA programs have a math requirement. Just want to be sure these BFA applicants know that even tho you are in a conservatory style program you still have university requirements and Math of some sort is one of them. I do not subscribe to the position of encouraging a non math savvy student to take an AP level math course to avoid college math unless you love math. I am just posting to state that math, language, history, science and english and more will still be part of the college curriculum. As previous posters stated above if you can take that extra language in high school and section out of language or reduce your requirement to maybe one college class you will be making room for more electives while in college unless of course you are a language enthusiast, then it leaves you room to learn a new language.</p>
<p>Of course, even when a college or university has a math requirement, that requirement can often be satisfied with something other than calculus. (NOTE: not at MIT.)</p>
<p>There are relatively few students at MIT who are contemplating a career in the theatre.</p>
<p>My daughter’s math requirement at Shenandoah took into consideration who was taking this course! I believe that mos schools who have a Theatre/MT BFA have a math class that is quite similar to hers…and might I add, she got a wonderful grade without any stress.</p>