Do most take both AP Lang and AP Lit?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

+1. My student, NOVA public with 4.5 and 1560, 9 AP and 4 DE engineering applicant was waitlisted at UVA. Took HONORS English in 11th and 12th over Lang and Lit.

UVA is clear about wanting the most advanced classes across all 5 core subjects

Obvious that was the point the poster was trying to make. More than qualified applicant was waitlisted when kid chose not to take AP english.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can those electives and still take the AP class if you want.

Your expensive guidance counselor's job is to convince AOs that your electives are better than AP. That's what you are paying for.

Most parents have kids in public school and aren't paying guidance counselors anything. Maybe the lack of a salesman to make a class sound like more than it is explains why top public school students take so many AP classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

This is great news. Was this recently? What was the most common highest AP Math?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

+1. My student, NOVA public with 4.5 and 1560, 9 AP and 4 DE engineering applicant was waitlisted at UVA. Took HONORS English in 11th and 12th over Lang and Lit.

UVA is clear about wanting the most advanced classes across all 5 core subjects

Obvious that was the point the poster was trying to make. More than qualified applicant was waitlisted when kid chose not to take AP english.

At least UVA makes this clear. Many schools don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's appropriate to take AP Lit senior year if college bound. AP Lang is just college board expanding into earlier grades, not the same rigor.

My kids took both and said lit is way easier than language.

[Anonymous]

My kids took both, if you can't... not sure you're qualified for a top school. Neither was particularly hard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

This is great news. Was this recently? What was the most common highest AP Math?

Yes. She will be a “First Year” this fall. Highest math was Calc BC. At least one AP class in each subject area, including World Language.

[Anonymous]

Yes, you need to take both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

+1. My student, NOVA public with 4.5 and 1560, 9 AP and 4 DE engineering applicant was waitlisted at UVA. Took HONORS English in 11th and 12th over Lang and Lit.

If you are coming out of NOVA you need a double digit AP count to be truly competitive. Sure some will get in with less but double digit AP count is the new norm.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's appropriate to take AP Lit senior year if college bound. AP Lang is just college board expanding into earlier grades, not the same rigor.

My kids took both and said lit is way easier than language.

Okay, an anomaly of your school. That's not the reputation, or evident in the score distribution.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

This is great news. Was this recently? What was the most common highest AP Math?

Yes. She will be a “First Year” this fall. Highest math was Calc BC. At least one AP class in each subject area, including World Language.

Do you mean every subject except English?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

This is great news. Was this recently? What was the most common highest AP Math?

Yes. She will be a “First Year” this fall. Highest math was Calc BC. At least one AP class in each subject area, including World Language.

Do you mean every subject except English?

She took AP Lang, but not AP Lit. Took DE English instead. Kids that got into UVA a year ahead of her, did the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

This is great news. Was this recently? What was the most common highest AP Math?

Yes. She will be a “First Year” this fall. Highest math was Calc BC. At least one AP class in each subject area, including World Language.

Do you mean every subject except English?

She took AP Lang, but not AP Lit. Took DE English instead. Kids that got into UVA a year ahead of her, did the same thing.

What is DE English??

Our private does Lang in 11th and Lit in 12th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

This is great news. Was this recently? What was the most common highest AP Math?

Yes. She will be a “First Year” this fall. Highest math was Calc BC. At least one AP class in each subject area, including World Language.

Do you mean every subject except English?

She took AP Lang, but not AP Lit. Took DE English instead. Kids that got into UVA a year ahead of her, did the same thing.

What is DE English??

Our private does Lang in 11th and Lit in 12th.

Disregard. Just saw someone answered on previous page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates.

I am this poster. Extra info: she attended a high “FARMS” FCPS school.