Junior Course Load w/ sports and volunteering

[milliekl13]

DD is planning out her junior year. She is taking at least four AP classes (core classes). BC Calc, AP Physics, APUSH, and AP Lang. This is what her classmates are taking and what she wants to take. However, she is also considering Spanish 4, AP Macro/Micro Economics, or Entrepreneurship 1 DE. Are DE classes as heavy as AP's? She's never taken DE's before, only AP. Have any of yours ever taken this courseload? On top, she plays a travel sport a few days a week with tourneys bi-weekendly , volunteers once a week, and will play a spring varsity sport for her school.

[Anonymous]

My DD (now a high school senior in FCPS) took 4 AP's (AP Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci, and AP Physics ) and was leader of multiple activities, had a job, and played two sports. It was manageable, (she stayed up until 11 max) because she didn't have APUSH. History is her favorite subject, but APUSH is a lot of work at her school, so she skipped it. At her school, that was deemed the most rigorous for college admissions and even with a lower number of APs compared to some of her classmates, she got admission to her top school this past December. Don't let your kid overburden themselves with classes because besides school, there's also ACT/SAT testing and activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD (now a high school senior in FCPS) took 4 AP's (AP Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci, and AP Physics ) and was leader of multiple activities, had a job, and played two sports. It was manageable, (she stayed up until 11 max) because she didn't have APUSH. History is her favorite subject, but APUSH is a lot of work at her school, so she skipped it. At her school, that was deemed the most rigorous for college admissions and even with a lower number of APs compared to some of her classmates, she got admission to her top school this past December. Don't let your kid overburden themselves with classes because besides school, there's also ACT/SAT testing and activities.

And who deemed it? LOL. Parents are sooo weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD (now a high school senior in FCPS) took 4 AP's (AP Lang, AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci, and AP Physics ) and was leader of multiple activities, had a job, and played two sports. It was manageable, (she stayed up until 11 max) because she didn't have APUSH. History is her favorite subject, but APUSH is a lot of work at her school, so she skipped it. At her school, that was deemed the most rigorous for college admissions and even with a lower number of APs compared to some of her classmates, she got admission to her top school this past December. Don't let your kid overburden themselves with classes because besides school, there's also ACT/SAT testing and activities.

And who deemed it? LOL. Parents are sooo weird.

My DD's counselor checked the box off for "most rigorous" when he went over and signed the NACAC secondary school report with her. The NACAC secondary school reports is sent to colleges along with the transcript.

[Anonymous]

Econ is 2 more AP exams — that’s a lot of testing in a two week window. I’d consider the DE — still college level but without the additional AP exam. But, I’d also let her choose which sound more interesting.