However, AP statistics emulates a non-calculus introductory statistics course in college that is often recommended to fulfill a math or quantitative reasoning requirement for students in no-math majors. I.e. it is quite different from the calculus-based statistics courses that statistics and applied math majors may take.
For a high school student considering math-heavy majors, AP statistics may be useful to help determine interest in statistics and related majors, but should not be expected to give subject credit or advanced placement in such a major (analogous to AP CS principles for CS and related majors).