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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 4 APs DS can take in sophomore year in his school. He took all honors (except Band and Information systems) in Freshman and is at a decent A overall.
He is considering to do 3 of the 4 below, is that too much? Did any of your children do this? Or did anyone do 4 even in sophomore year? Any idea on the rigor/ease of these four? What 3 would you recommend?

AP World History
AP CSP
AP Human Geography
AP Stats (since he is Algebra 2 this year) [/quote]

AP world is tough, the rest are easy APs. Some honor classes are tougher and more useful than aphug and apcsp [/quote]

+1. AP World is a killer. But appropriate for 10th and the first AP many FCPS kids take—in 10th.  Mine had Human Geo in 11th and it was an easy 5. Although there are relatively few 5th statistically because lots of kids take it in 9th or 10th.  CSP is supposed to be super easy.

AP Stats is actually not easy at my kids school.  Most kids who take it have Pre-Calc and are senior who don’t want Calculus, or who have Calculus and need a senior math class.

Even if your kid takes summer PE, 5 core (includes AP World), you only have 2 spots left.  I’d do AP a CS and/or Human Geo, but let your kid have a say. 2 is fine.

Your sophomore should not take AP Stats instead of Pre-Calc. Then what junior year when he has a year long gap to lose knowledge and needs Pre-Calc to progress?

What is he interested in? [/quote]

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