Did your high school precalculus course not include trigonometry (sine, cosine, tangent, etc.; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry for a brief overview of topics) that would satisfy the prerequisite for physics or calculus?
Statistics is more directly useful for social sciences, but some social sciences (particularly economics) may require calculus, and social scientists may find a stronger knowledge of statistics based on calculus to be helpful.