<p>Mizzou and Alabama DO accept every applicant who meets certain standards and doesn’t have an arrest record or other impediment. The OP’s D is well above the standards for the schools she’s interested in – she’s even guaranteed automatic merit aid at Alabama. At MSU, her admission won’t be automatic, but she’s very, very likely to get in as an in-state applicant with a 30 ACT and her other qualifications even without 4 years of science and hard math. If she decides she wants to go to UVA, etc., that’s a different story.</p>
<p>OP, does she have a class rank? Is the 3.7 weighted or unweighted?</p>
<p>Were this my kid, I’d encourage her to take Statistics instead of business math because she has to take math anyway, and she may as well take something more substantive, and that will give her a leg up if/when she has to retake it in college. (Many, many majors require statistics, including pretty much everything in social sciences.) But I don’t think she needs to drop something that interests her more, or add a 7th class, in order to squeeze in a science class she doesn’t actually care about.</p>