But there is an even more fundamental danger in trying to quickly pull away from calculus to some other math subject as the "capstone" of most programs. I don't think many of the people considering the change understand the magnitude of what they are trying to do. 

Calculus has been refined and developed as subject for math education for decades and decades. From theory to problem sets huge sets of material have been refined by thousands of people-- stats isn't so well developed. 3/