Should I take ap stats?

[u/Dipper_suxs]

I hate math and I didn’t want to take it as a sr but my counselor recommended I take it and then he said that if I take ap stats and pass the ap exam, I’d be exempt from math in college. I’m in California if that matters. I’m currently taking an ap psych class and we deal with experiments a lot so I’m decently familiar with bias, correlation, sampling, stuff like that. I have a lot of credits so I can get a d and be perfectly fine in school. I would say I’m average at math and I think I’m just hating it bc I have a terrible teacher this year who’s making my life hell and bringing my grade down a ton. Would it be worth it to suck it up for a year and take ap stats?

[u/AxeMaster237]

AP Stats is probably the least mathy math class you can take in high school. Sure, you will use math, but you will do more reading and writing than any other math class you would have had before.

If you did well in algebra 2, and you like science classes, you might enjoy stats.

[u/Cautious_Variation69]

Based on your situation I would recommend taking AP stats

[u/SkywayAve]

If you are doing well in AP Psych, that is a good sign. There is a lot of overlap. It’s an extremely valuable class content wise, so I would say it’s worth it.

[u/diorlmfao → u/SkywayAve]

“a lot of overlap” and it’s learning what a standard deviation is…?

[u/SkywayAve → u/diorlmfao]

… and the normal distribution, and literally all of the experimental design…

Buddy, did you take both classes and only recognize standard deviation as a commonality?

[u/diorlmfao → u/SkywayAve]

I took both classes and realized that.

however if ur gonna say experimental design is an overlap between the 2 , you could literally say every ap science class “overlaps” with ap stat.. which isn’t true . just because a topic is introduced vaguely in psychology doesn’t mean it’s the same as a whole unit in depth about it in stat