What does "most rigorous" mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My TJ senior didn't take any AP classes until junior year (he did take the AP World History exam after his sophmore year, although the class is not offered at TJ). As a junior, he ended up with 4 AP classes (computer science, Spanish, Calc AB, and US History), and is taking 3 more this year (Calc. BC, AP Gov't, and AP English), plus 3 post-AP classes (he wanted to take AP Spanish Lit, but it wasn't offered this year). So to my mind he's taken a pretty rigorous course load, but didn't take any of AP Bio, Chem, or Physics. So I don't know how this would measure up for the kinds of schools he's interested in (top level LAC's). My younger is currently a sophmore at our base school. He took AP World History as a freshman, and is currently in AP Spanish, AP Gov't, and AP Psych. He'll likely end up doing the IB program starting next year, so he won't have any more AP's, but will have the full complement of IB courses. So will his course load be considered more rigorous than my TJ- attending son? Who knows, but I know they are both working hard.

How is your son taking AP Spanish as a sophomore?

I am not the person you are asking, but AP foreign language is fairly easy to get to in MCPS. DD started French in 6th grade, and will reach AP French by 10th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My TJ senior didn't take any AP classes until junior year (he did take the AP World History exam after his sophmore year, although the class is not offered at TJ). As a junior, he ended up with 4 AP classes (computer science, Spanish, Calc AB, and US History), and is taking 3 more this year (Calc. BC, AP Gov't, and AP English), plus 3 post-AP classes (he wanted to take AP Spanish Lit, but it wasn't offered this year). So to my mind he's taken a pretty rigorous course load, but didn't take any of AP Bio, Chem, or Physics. So I don't know how this would measure up for the kinds of schools he's interested in (top level LAC's). My younger is currently a sophmore at our base school. He took AP World History as a freshman, and is currently in AP Spanish, AP Gov't, and AP Psych. He'll likely end up doing the IB program starting next year, so he won't have any more AP's, but will have the full complement of IB courses. So will his course load be considered more rigorous than my TJ- attending son? Who knows, but I know they are both working hard.

How is your son taking AP Spanish as a sophomore?

He went through the Spanish immersion program in Arlington through 8th grade, so his Spanish is pretty good at this point. He took Spanish III for fluent speakers as a freshman.

[Anonymous]

"You look around and finally realize that lots of people who did not attend a top 25 colleges are also making 1% incomes. Then you back off."

I have a brother and a cousin who fall into your category. Both are inspirations for my kids to attend top 25 colleges because they hate their jobs.

They spent their 20s crawling under toilets and behind furnaces. Now they only do that kind of thing on holidays when their crews won't show up.

One is scheduled for knee replacement surgery in December. We insisted each kid spend a summer working for one of them. Now DC understand.

I have another cousin who makes a decent living as an artist with no college and loves his job.

At every family get together, he preaches to the younger generation how if he had just stayed in college he would make twice as much doing the same job.