<p>I’ve ran out of AP math and science classes at my school, so I get to take classes at the local college for free.</p>
<p>I’m not really limited to what classes I take, but I prefer math classes over science (labs suck).</p>
<p>I’m taking Calc BC, Physics C, and AP Chem this year and have easy A’s in all three (or I would if I went to school, but that’s irrelevant). There’s like five or six college classes I can take (I don’t know what they are, but I know they’re there). I have 3-5 open classes, and I’m sure I can handle any difficulty of classes, as long as they don’t require skills I haven’t had the chance to acquire.</p>
<p>Based on this, what courses (specifically) should I take?</p>
<p>But seriously, it depends on what sounds most interesting to you. At my school people typically take multivariable, differential equations, and linear algebra after Calc BC (in that order), but check to see if other courses might be more fun/useful.</p>
<p>You’ve taken statistics at school, I assume? If not, it’s incredibly useful (for research, and lots of other stuff), and you really should take it.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken stats. I had the class for one day and decided it was completely worthless BS. Also, it’s supposed to be more Language Arts based than math based… and I hate LA.</p>
<p>The first day of stats is completely worthless BS…it gets a lot better as the year goes on. And even though you have to do a ton of writing in stats, it’s really helpful for being able to prove, for example, that experimental data actually fits a model. And the probability part even helps you create models sometimes. I have a friend who was coauthored in the journal Science just because of her knowledge of elementary, high-school level statistics.</p>
<p>But yeah, if you think it’s too boring, don’t take it.</p>
<p>Stat can be challenging and interesting if you put some time in outside of class. Introductory stat classes tend to be very dumbed down, but you can supplement your classwork with much more difficult, theoretical books, such as Casella and Berger’s Statistical Inference, which covers the same material, but at a more advanced level, if you really want to learn statistics. That’s what I’m trying to do this semester.</p>
And even though you have to do a ton of writing in stats, it’s really helpful for being able to prove, for example, that experimental data actually fits a model. And the probability part even helps you create models sometimes. I have a friend who was coauthored in the journal Science just because of her knowledge of elementary, high-school level statistics.</p>