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)]

[ucbalumnus]

@Hunter08

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.

Calculus will be a prerequisite for any statistics course more advanced than the AP statistics level (= introductory statistics for non-majors in college). If you intend to major in statistics or data science, or just want to get a stronger background in statistics for social sciences, you will need to take calculus to prepare for more advanced statistics courses.