College course of Statistics?

I am currently a high school junior and will be taking Elementary Statistics (4 units, 1 semester) at a local city college which is transeferrable to UC according to ASSIST.ORG. I am wondering if this course will help my transcript and GPA (weighted). Say I get an A, will this count as 5.0 in UC's system? To what degree it will help my college app? Also if I finished this course and get credits for it, there is no need for me to take AP Statistics, right?





By the way, how hard is it? I finished pre-calc (honor) and will be taking calc A(H) next semester, contemporary with my college statistics class. Will I be able to handle it? both at the same time? The text that we use for stats is by Triola, Elementary Statistics 10th ed.





I will be taking Physics 1A at that college in summer, will this help my college app also? I plan to take 2 classes and I am thinkg about physics with either english1a or linear algebra. Any suggestions for that? (based on college application)

College course of Statistics?
Generally weighted high school grades mean absolutely nothing at the college level... which is why they are a little pointless. I think the whole weighted system is more to divide honors students from non-honors students at the high school level, and while I'm sure it looks good on a college applications, the grade will only transfer as a good old fashioned A from the college's perspective. It won't count as extra credit hours or anything like that. But you are correct that if you get credit for it, there is no need to retake it as AP. One or the other is fine (although, if it's JUST taken as AP, the credit will count if the test is passed appropriately, but the grade will not contribute to the college GPA at all).





As for how hard it is--I took it as an AP class my senior year in HS, and had a great teacher who made it cake. I didn't take the test though, because I wanted to take it in college and actually get a grade for it. Big mistake! I had a horrible professor, and even though we used the exact same book i used in high school, he made it seem like Greek. I ended up dropping it and retaking it a couple years later, and having to completely re-learn it.





Taking college courses, like I said, looks good on a college application. It shows them that you are already able to handle college courses, and may make you a better candidate for scholarships if your standardized test scores are also good. However, i don't think WHAT you take will have much bearing on your admissions chances. Your best bet would be to decide on a few possible college majors, and see what some of the lower level classes are. Taking random classes, even if they're college classes, won't help you graduate any earlier if they're not the right ones. Luckily, most schools require a core of the same classes to be taken by all students. Find out what these are, and try to take as many of them as possible (usually english, public speaking/communications, religion, a foreign language, etc. depending on the type of college/university you plan to attend).





It sounds like you're off to a great start, and admissions counselors are going to love you. Getting accepted to college isn't as hard as it sounds--they are always willing to take your money!! Decent grades and mediocre test scores will get you admitted to 99% of the colleges in the country. Sorry to tell you that your weighted grades pretty much won't matter, since they will be translated to a 4.0 scale for the admissions process. But keep up the good work!
Reply:Both stats and physics will be good for your college application. I would go with the college course rather than AP. I liked statistics, it's applied math and makes a lot of sense (except I hated validation and reliability). Probability is fascinating and you will use the concepts throughout your life!
Reply:The most classes you take the better.





For the summer i really suggest taking english since that really holds you back in college and also its usually easier to do english at a community than at the university.





Stats is a pretty easy class and doesnt really go past basic algebra so it wont help you much in calculus. Calculus for some is brutal and for others its ok but i rarely hear people have a easy time in calculus.





I am not sure about the GPA conversion for college courses.
Reply:wow, you ask so much question in small thing...it doesnt count as 5.0 in UC. High school and college gpa are separate. You still in high school so its doesnt count as 5.0 for UC, but only college students count. I havent heard anyone can get 5.0 gpa. Yours will be count as credit that you have completed...for more info ask your counselor