Pre Calc or Financial Lit

MYOS1634
Wed, 06 Jan 2016 20:09:58 +0000

What type of colleges are you talking about?
Precalculus is expected for a selective college (any flagship + top 125 LACs + top 20 regional.) The only exception I can think of is if you have a special skill (you’re trilingual, you’re a paid artist, you have taken all the Humanities APs at your school then taken further classes in the subject at your community college…)
In addition, some colleges only look at your list of planned classes for 12th grade, and not your grades. others do need your first semester grades.
That’s why telling us which colleges you’re planning to apply to matters.

As for college: if you’re not majoring in business, economics, or STEM, you won’t necessarily take precalculus in college.
Many colleges have special uantitative classes for humanities majors, such as History of Math, Math of Money, Math for Citizenship… CHECK YOUR COLLEGE CHOICE’S SCHEDULE and make sure they offer one of those. Not all do - in which case you’d be stuck in precalculus at college pace, which would be horrible for a students who’s poor at math. A great choice for you would be “Logic”, a philosophy class that also helps with the LSAT ( but it’s no picnic).

Back to your current situation: uou can also take a statistics class. BTW, isn’t statistics an option for you? In terms of difficulty, it’s less hard than precalc, but it’s more academically legit than Financial Literacy.
Ask your current math teacher: does s/he think you can get a B/B- in precalc?
If not, you may be better off taking Financial Literacy, but you’ll have to compensate with a class demonstrating extra course rigor (ie., the AP level in a foreign language, a Level2 dual enrollment class, a Level1 Philosophy class, etc.)