Most Rigorous Curriculum

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Anonymous wrote:Is this subjective or are there defined requirements by school for receiving this designation. Which child (hypothetical) below would receive the designation?

Child 1:
AP Lit
AP Lang
APUSH
AP Gov
H. Physics
AP Environmental
French 5
Pre Calc
AP Stats

Child 2:
MV/Dif EQ/LA
AP Physics: Mechanics
AP Physics: E&M
AP Chem
AP Environmental
AP Stats
H. English 12
ASL 4
H. US History
H. NSL Gov
AP Micro/Macro

Funny how the guy with Multivariable didn’t do AP Calculus BC.

Not having an AP in English is a red flag considering that 20% of all students nationwide take it, something like 600k.

Good catch on AP calc. Perhaps the PP is implying that AP calc was taken in middle school, though that would be unusual.

I would disagree on AP English being some sort of red flag. This may differ by admissions office, though generally my understanding is that overall rigor is more important than missing one type of rigor.

I have a kid at a T10 with no AP Lang/Lit, and did not have past level 3 foreign language (though I don't want to get this thread off track); he did have APUSH and AP Euro for the humanities side, and from the stem side, AP calc AB, BC, stats, and multivariable, Physics C, and a couple other APs I can't remember. Apparently, that was enough.

Not having an AP in English is absolutely a red flag. High schools don’t have honors English anymore,

FCPS does. English 9, 10, 11, and 12 all have honors (HN) versions. Of course that still won't look as impressive as an AP or IB English course.

Some districts have Honors and Gifted as separate classes, and AP replaces Gifted in the upper years.

[Anonymous]

OK but what if one kid takes Orchestra and Linear Algebra and the other takes Calc BC and AP European history? Which one is higher rigor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK but what if one kid takes Orchestra and Linear Algebra and the other takes Calc BC and AP European history? Which one is higher rigor?

Both are “most rigorous.” It’s a category, not a superlative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With so much cheating and grade inflation. Submitting all taken AP scores should be a requirement.

If SATs aren’t required, AP’s surely won’t be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this subjective or are there defined requirements by school for receiving this designation. Which child (hypothetical) below would receive the designation?

Child 1:
AP Lit
AP Lang
APUSH
AP Gov
H. Physics
AP Environmental
French 5
Pre Calc
AP Stats

Child 2:
MV/Dif EQ/LA
AP Physics: Mechanics
AP Physics: E&M
AP Chem
AP Environmental
AP Stats
H. English 12
ASL 4
H. US History
H. NSL Gov
AP Micro/Macro

Is this a joke? It is the second one.
But at least in our high school the second one is still not "highest rigor". There will be about 12-15 kids each year who run the table with top courses across all disciplines:

MVC as highest math
AP Chem
AP PhysicsC
AP lit
AP foreign lang
APUSH
and the last few AP spots possible will be some mix of AP bio or Econ or gov or Compsci, or one of the post-AP honors courses(organic chem, specific niche history or literature seminars).

That group, which is roughly the top 15% of the class rigor-wise, is where every unhooked ivy admit comes from, whether they have a couple A- or B+and are in the low end of the top 10% or whether they are the Valedictorian with A/A+ in everything. Rigor is more important than small differences in GPA. This is a top private that sends about 10% to ivy+ and 40% to T25/top8 LAC.

Ok, so for English kids take AP Lit, but not AP Lang. Got it, you’re making up stuff again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this subjective or are there defined requirements by school for receiving this designation. Which child (hypothetical) below would receive the designation?

Child 1:
AP Lit
AP Lang
APUSH
AP Gov
H. Physics
AP Environmental
French 5
Pre Calc
AP Stats

Child 2:
MV/Dif EQ/LA
AP Physics: Mechanics
AP Physics: E&M
AP Chem
AP Environmental
AP Stats
H. English 12
ASL 4
H. US History
H. NSL Gov
AP Micro/Macro

Funny how the guy with Multivariable didn’t do AP Calculus BC.

Not having an AP in English is a red flag considering that 20% of all students nationwide take it, something like 600k.

Good catch on AP calc. Perhaps the PP is implying that AP calc was taken in middle school, though that would be unusual.

I would disagree on AP English being some sort of red flag. This may differ by admissions office, though generally my understanding is that overall rigor is more important than missing one type of rigor.

I have a kid at a T10 with no AP Lang/Lit, and did not have past level 3 foreign language (though I don't want to get this thread off track); he did have APUSH and AP Euro for the humanities side, and from the stem side, AP calc AB, BC, stats, and multivariable, Physics C, and a couple other APs I can't remember. Apparently, that was enough.

Not having an AP in English is absolutely a red flag. High schools don’t have honors English anymore,

FCPS does. English 9, 10, 11, and 12 all have honors (HN) versions. Of course that still won't look as impressive as an AP or IB English course.

Some districts have Honors and Gifted as separate classes, and AP replaces Gifted in the upper years.

I didn't think FCPS had "Gifted" in high school any more.