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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm posting this on the college board because many of you have had kids who've been in these classes!   Thank you in advance.

My daughter attends a rigorous private.  They don't allow any APs until 11th grade. 
Unlike other privates, they've kept APs in the sciences.

She's a math/science kid.  She's one of a handful of kids (10 in the grade?) who is in honors pre-calc this year and doing very well.
Her science track was physics in 9th grade and chemistry in 10th.  She's received (or is receiving) high As in both.

[b]Is it reasonable to double up on AP bio and AP physics C next year as well as take Calc BC?[/b]
Then senior year she would take Linear algebra and probably AP Chem.

IS this insane?  Doable? 
Is AP bio a lot of work?
Is it a bad idea to take physics C at the same time as calculus?

Thank you so much for any thoughts!  [/quote]

I think that it’s important to find out what the specific teachers teaching the classes are like.

It’s hard to get AP-certified teachers, and two of my son’s AP teachers were lazy bags of fertilizer who didn’t do any teaching. Your daughter needs to accept the idea that she might need to get tutoring and/or self study if a teacher is terrible.

Assuming that your daughter could survive at UMd., academically, if it let her in, she’ll probably be fine. But she might end up with a lower GPA and less time for spectacular activities. So, she might be aiming herself more at a UMd or equivalent honors program than at an Ivy, if that’s a big deal. But, if she really does what she loves, how she wants to do it, maybe that will maximize the odds that she’s at a college that’s right for her. [/quote]

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