Critic DSs 11th grade schedule
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Anonymous
That looks about right. My 11th grader had something a bit similar at the beginning of the year but thought it was too much. She ended up dropping the history course for an easy elective and pushing history back to senior year (but she wanted to take the AP version--my oldest took the honors version and found it easy so that might be ok.) In any case, check in with your kid once school begins and assess whether they'd be better off doing something similar. You can drop a class the first weeks of fall term. Most kids don't end up with AP physics and bio and chem in HS. In fact, I don't think I know of any kids doing that. Most I know who are Top 10 bound do 2 of the 3 in advanced AP format. |
Anonymous
| how about taking AP World History? If most of the juniors in his high school taking that, it is better to take it instead of honor world history. |
Anonymous
He’s not interested in AP History classes. We compromised on AP Lang. |
Anonymous
| I think you are getting all sorts of responses from individuals who have no idea what you are looking for. Is this whether the classes are do-able? Whether they will get into a T5 school? Are they interesting? I feel like this schedule is great for some purposes but not for others. |
Anonymous
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If it were me, and my kid didn't like the language, I'd be fine with the schedule you originally proposed, OP. He has an impressive list of courses. Better for him to pursue his interests in STEM. And I agree that AP Research is useful.
This isn't all about college admissions. It's also about the content and skills kids actually learn. |
Anonymous
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What does the kid want to take? The kid is a kids junior year of HS. When are you going to step aside and let them make decisions? Sure you can advise but it's ultimately about them, and their interest, and their effort.
No wonder admissions officers are tired of reading kids profiles. Everyone is trying to create clones. |
Anonymous
No one is trying to create clones you bizarre drama llama and if you bothered to read the OP, you would see that her kid wants this STEM focused schedule and has strong preferences about several of the classes that OP is well aware of. |
Anonymous
I think that is PPs point. If the kid knows what they want to do why is OP asking for advice? |
Anonymous
So you let your kid do whatever they want to do without taking guidance from others? Based on this thread, looks like OP's kid was convinced to do a 3rd year of foreign language. |
Anonymous
No based on this thread it does not seem that OPs kid was convinced to do a 3rd year of a FL, its seems like OP was convinced and is not forcing it upon her kid. Very different things. |
Anonymous
That’s your opinion. Perhaps you’re projecting. |
Anonymous
I help my kids make wise decisions in the context of what they want. We have no idea why PP is asking for feedback. Does the kid even want to go to UVA? Is it possible to get into a top school if you take foreign language but not AP history and English classes? If the pathways is already unlikely because the kid has other preferences where they won’t budge, why not just let them take what they like? It does seem strange to ask random stranger who have no knowledge of my kid of their goals to weigh in on my kids schedule. |
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I would take H English is 11th and AP Lit in 12th, it is odd to drop in progression of advancement in any subject it makes someone pause when looking at the transcript, he should rise to the higher level in 12th or stay at the same as 11th.
I would not do both AP chem and Bio at once. I would switch out one of those for two of the single period APs you currently have for 11th. |
Anonymous
If college admissions is the goal, then the kid might need both AP lang and AP lit but they have a year to figure that out. (I suggested to my STEM kid that they drop to honors Lang in 11th and they refused because "everyone" takes AP lang/lit so they'd look very weak for college admissions without it.) If the goal is education, then I think AP lang is more important-- for my kids, this is the first time they've had a rigorous writing experience, ever. I highly recommend AP lang. I also think two double period sciences (ap chem and ap bio) is pretty excessive. But it actually gives some cushion to the schedule. Don't get me wrong. AP Chem is hard! (AP bio is, too, but less so I think.) But the double period aspect is useful in terms of workload-- you're not juggling 8 different teachers scheduling tests the same week, but 6. For a non social science kid, pushing World to senior year is very feasible. And that also gives them a year to figure out AP vs Honors if that's an open question. |
Anonymous
I do agree with this and that these choices depend greatly on the kids goals |