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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here to clarify.

Questions above were asked by DC.

The Answers were provided by the counselor. [/quote]

You now complain to the counselor. The questions were fair -they are dodging. If you don’t get a proper response go to the principal. Your student can’t possibly know whether or not to apply to top schools if you don’t know where your kid stands vis-a-vis “most rigorous” and whether or not they are checking off that box[/quote]

Is it literally a checkbox?

If it were, there’d only be a single path of classes. 
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We're in APS but my kids' counselor was very up-front about it. She said there was a scale for her to check off -- "most rigorous" is the top, "very demanding" is the next down. Both my kids are in the "very demanding" category because they are W-L and not doing the IB Diploma or equivalent in number of AP classes, which is what it takes there to get the top rating.  This was during class selection last year for my now 11th grader (older kid is now a college freshman). Older DC's transcript had 9 AP/IB/DE classes. 2nd DC on track to have 10, still not "most rigorous" but plenty of rigor for them.

I think some schools probably don't tell students/parents because they are trying to cut down on pressure to do more APs than a kid can handle but it's also not fair to not make the implications of schedule choices clear. [/quote]

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