<p>intparent, congratulations to your daughter on her internships, and I totally agree with her about the value of statistics. However I disagree about the value of high school AP statistics, unless there is a fantastic teacher like the OP is describing. High school AP statistics is typically “cookbook”; nothing is derived, the students do not delve into the background of what they are doing. A student who needs to have understanding of why algorithms work will get frustrated. A good college statistics course is another matter entirely - it is very valuable for just about everyone!
Add to that the problem that the OP’s son will probably not be with his academic peers in the AP statistics class - most of the students will probably be 12th graders avoiding calculus, which is fine, but they are not academic peers of a student who was able to handle BC calculus in 11th grade.</p>