High School Student Aiming for Columbia [TN resident, 4.0 GPA (4.74 for UTK), 33 ACT, political science and statistics, <$15k (Columbia NPC $10k)]

I never took calculus because I was told I would never need it by my AP Stats teacher for what I was wanting to go into and why risk my 4.0 for a class I wouldn’t need or probably like when I could take more stats focused math classes and almost every social studies AP. I also took classes out of order for my school, Stats as a sophomore when it is normally taken in senior year alongside our senior thesis research