[nabs-l] Scheduling

[Lillie Pennington]

Thank you all belatedly for your help. The thing about calc and Braille is a good thing to consider.

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> On Mar 1, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Minhh Ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I definitely agree with Arielle that stats is a lot easier than calculus. I took Ap calc in high school and it was one of the hardest classes I ever took and I was really glad that I had the braille and all the support I needed. I'm taking stats in college right now and it's more manageable without braille. Also, you need to consider that universities have core require.e ts and while many of them accept AP credit for waving the college math requirement for calc, they won't do the same for AP stats, especially the more prestigious universities. This happened to a lot of my friends who opted to take AP stats in hs instead of AP calc.
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> Minh
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>> On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If your major is going to require calc or higher, and you take AP calc
>> and pass the AP exam, you can completely get out of college math.
>> That's what I did and I'm glad I took calc as a high school senior
>> with a Braille text instead of waiting until college where Braille
>> might have been a rare luxury. On the other hand, if you know for sure
>> that your major won't require calc, you can do stats instead. I
>> thought that a B.S. in psychology requires a semester of calc, but
>> perhaps I am wrong about that? I personally think stats is much easier
>> than calculus, for whatever that's worth. So if you have to take both
>> and can only take one in high school, I'd probably suggest taking calc
>> while you have the support and Braille access, which won't be critical
>> for stats. Just my thoughts.
>> Arielle
>> 
>>> On 2/28/14, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Lillie and all,
>>> 
>>> I agree with some of what has been said, but here's another spin on
>>> it.  Of course, I have a slight advantage in knowing what you're
>>> looking into for college majors since we personally know each other,
>>> so here is what I would suggest.
>>> 
>>> Speaking as someone who is in a very humanistic field, and who is in
>>> the psych department a lot and knows a lot of people getting their B.S
>>> degrees as well as those in other humanities fields, I would recommend
>>> going with the AP Stats course.  I wish I had taken it senior year
>>> when I had a little more support instead of waiting till college to
>>> take stats, and I don't, nor do any of my psychology friends, have to
>>> take any other math.  Sure, psych majors have to take experimental
>>> psychology which has a little math involved, but it's nothing like
>>> calc from what I understand.  If you know you're going to go into a
>>> humanities major, and eventually a career, I wouldn't waste your time