When did taking 6 APs become normal

[Anonymous]

6/year or 6/HS (4 yrs)?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]6/year or 6/HS (4 yrs)?[/quote]

The blog post pasted by the OP was from a FCPD senior who said his guidance counselor told him to take 6 APs his senior year.

I think 6 in high school is low to average now.

[Anonymous]

The problem is too many people are going to college.

[Anonymous]

And, there is a lot of grade inflation. And, much competition in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is what it is. No one likes it but either you keep up or left behind. Time's changed... Not for the better, sadly.

I think it's time for parents to be brave and risk being "left behind." It is not admirable to simply go along with what everyone else is doing when you have evidence it's hurting your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And, there is a lot of grade inflation. And, much competition in the DC area.

we should've moved to podunk nowhere. Big fish, little pond.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6/year or 6/HS (4 yrs)?[/quote]

The blog post pasted by the OP was from a FCPD senior who said his guidance counselor told him to take 6 APs his senior year.

I think 6 in high school is low to average now. [/quote]

The article does not say the student is in FCPS.

The student says his guidance counselor signed him up for 6 AP courses in his senior year. That would be quite unusual in any public school in NoVa except TJ. It would not be unusual for students to take more than six AP courses before graduating from high school, starting in their sophomore year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh I thought AP is Affair Partner. Dang!

1 for monday, 1 for tues... you get a break on sunday to go to church

Ha! Me too! I saw this on Recent Topics and thought to myself, "Who the heck has time for 6 affair partners?"

[Anonymous]

another poster who took a lot of APs in the 90s. i don't remember having more than a couple of hours of homework a night and took 4 in junior year and 4 in senior year. and I don't remember my experience being that different from the other top 40 to 50 kids. this was FCPS.

[Anonymous]

6 AP classes in the same year would be twelve hours of homework a night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And, there is a lot of grade inflation. And, much competition in the DC area.

AP tests and SAT2 counteract grade inflation bc they are standardized and not graded by local teachers.

[Anonymous]

My 9th grader is taking 2 AP classes this year and will take 3 as a sophomore and 3 as a junior. His goal is to only do 1 senior year to focus on college applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I took seven in the mid-90s, and nobody batted an eye.

What's the big deal?

Me too so did most of my friends. I finished ore calc in 10th grade so there was no more non AP math anyway. AP history classes we so much more interesting than honors. AP lit and AP English had the best teachers in the school teaching them and there were very interesting discussions in those classes.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6/year or 6/HS (4 yrs)?[/quote]

The blog post pasted by the OP was from a FCPD senior who said his guidance counselor told him to take 6 APs his senior year.

I think 6 in high school is low to average now. [/quote]

It is only average among the group of kids that take six.

My kid will take four next year. That seemed plenty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I took seven in the mid-90s, and nobody batted an eye.

What's the big deal?

In one year?