DCPS Selective HSs: What to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many AP tests do kids take from Latin/Basis/Walls?

I’m assuming no AP from Banneker or DCI bc they’re IB.

and my stem focused neighbor

Apologies for broken post. Neighbor claims walls doesn’t always offer all AP stem courses every year. Not sure if this is still the case and wanted confirmation.

Walls is not known for STEM and correct that not all AP STEM courses are offered every year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many AP tests do kids take from Latin/Basis/Walls?

I’m assuming no AP from Banneker or DCI bc they’re IB.

and my stem focused neighbor

Apologies for broken post. Neighbor claims walls doesn’t always offer all AP stem courses every year. Not sure if this is still the case and wanted confirmation.

This is true. The AP courses they offer in STEM every year are:
AP Physics 1
AP Physics C (mechanics only)
AP Environmental Science
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
Not an AP but: Calculus 3

They offer AP Biology every other year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many AP tests do kids take from Latin/Basis/Walls?

I’m assuming no AP from Banneker or DCI bc they’re IB.

and my stem focused neighbor

Apologies for broken post. Neighbor claims walls doesn’t always offer all AP stem courses every year. Not sure if this is still the case and wanted confirmation.

This is true. The AP courses they offer in STEM every year are:
AP Physics 1
AP Physics C (mechanics only)
AP Environmental Science
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
Not an AP but: Calculus 3

They offer AP Biology every other year.

This is extremely helpful, thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many AP tests do kids take from Latin/Basis/Walls?

I’m assuming no AP from Banneker or DCI bc they’re IB.

and my stem focused neighbor

Apologies for broken post. Neighbor claims walls doesn’t always offer all AP stem courses every year. Not sure if this is still the case and wanted confirmation.

This is true. The AP courses they offer in STEM every year are:
AP Physics 1
AP Physics C (mechanics only)
AP Environmental Science
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
Not an AP but: Calculus 3

They offer AP Biology every other year.

What about AP chemistry? What about math courses post Calculus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many AP tests do kids take from Latin/Basis/Walls?

I’m assuming no AP from Banneker or DCI bc they’re IB.

and my stem focused neighbor

Apologies for broken post. Neighbor claims walls doesn’t always offer all AP stem courses every year. Not sure if this is still the case and wanted confirmation.

This is true. The AP courses they offer in STEM every year are:
AP Physics 1
AP Physics C (mechanics only)
AP Environmental Science
AP Statistics
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
Not an AP but: Calculus 3

They offer AP Biology every other year.

What about AP chemistry? What about math courses post Calculus?

AP Chemistry is sometimes offered. Math classes post Calculus 3? None.

[Anonymous]

No AP chem since my kid has been there at Walls. (current junior). No AP Bio this year - hopefully next year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No AP chem since my kid has been there at Walls. (current junior). No AP Bio this year - hopefully next year!

This is good to know. Walls seems wonderful but would be a better fit for my humanities oriented kid than for my stem focused kid. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many AP tests do kids take from Latin/Basis/Walls?

I’m assuming no AP from Banneker or DCI bc they’re IB.

Banneker is AP and IB. My 9th grader is in pre-AP and honors courses.

Pre-IB or Pre-AP? When do students take AP classes and what grades?

From the interview, it seems like all Banneker students take AP World History in 10th Grade, and then you either apply to the IB track for 11th & 12th (sounds like only a small cohort get accepted - maybe 25 kids), or you stay with the AP Track and can take AP classes of interest/relevance to you in 11th & 12th.

[Anonymous]

DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason. These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason. These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career.

That is great to hear! I did not know this. So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests. This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason. These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career.

That is great to hear! I did not know this. So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests. This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.

Yes this is why our family did not opt to apply to Walls which seems like a good school but doesn’t offer the same level of rigorous curriculum as offered by DCI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason. These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career.

That is great to hear! I did not know this. So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests. This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.

Yes this is why our family did not opt to apply to Walls which seems like a good school but doesn’t offer the same level of rigorous curriculum as offered by DCI.

DCI is more rigorous than Walls? Haven’t really heard that before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason. These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career.

That is great to hear! I did not know this. So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests. This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.

Yes this is why our family did not opt to apply to Walls which seems like a good school but doesn’t offer the same level of rigorous curriculum as offered by DCI.

DCI is more rigorous than Walls? Haven’t really heard that before.

The highest track possibly so.

We can debate that forever but the fact is Walls is going downhill thanks to DCPS and DCI is on an upward trajectory by offering students more - more advance math, more AP courses earlier, more tracking and uses objective standardized testing for placement..

You can’t say that about Walls and they have taken away any objective testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason. These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career.

That is great to hear! I did not know this. So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests. This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.

Yes this is why our family did not opt to apply to Walls which seems like a good school but doesn’t offer the same level of rigorous curriculum as offered by DCI.

DCI is more rigorous than Walls? Haven’t really heard that before.

The highest track possibly so.

We can debate that forever but the fact is Walls is going downhill thanks to DCPS and DCI is on an upward trajectory by offering students more - more advance math, more AP courses earlier, more tracking and uses objective standardized testing for placement..

You can’t say that about Walls and they have taken away any objective testing.

I can’t claim to know enough about DCI and Walls to argue this but what more advanced math is DCI offering that Walls doesn’t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason. These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career.

That is great to hear! I did not know this. So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests. This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.

Yes this is why our family did not opt to apply to Walls which seems like a good school but doesn’t offer the same level of rigorous curriculum as offered by DCI.

🤣😂🤣

Glad your child is grounded in reality. At least they will be bilingual.