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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I think my question wasn't clear.  DC is learning math outside of FCPS that is catered to his speed.  Given that, is there any good reasons for changing his FCPS track, given that he's already on the "max" track for high achieving students?  Like, removing honors Alg2 from his HS transcript may lower his WGPA? But it might free his Jr year up for another AP?  Are there other considerations that we are missing?

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Others can weigh in but I responded just prior to your post.. if he's truly working on math on a different level than school (i.e math contest material, etc), it's not really very important whether he tries to switch tracks. If he's lucky enough to already love and be good at math, AND he's already motivating himself toward excelling in high level math contests such as the USAJMO, honestly school math will feel very boring by comparison. It's very, very difficult to do well at high level math contests without investing very significant chunks of time in training/solving problems. As such, worrying about AP courses is a distraction by comparison.. it's not really very relevant. Realistically, being overly busy with school classes would make it harder for him to find enough time to train/do more advanced math assuming that is what he wants to do.[/quote]

I saw your other posts about optimizing for dream school/MIT, etc. MIT doesn't really care at all about APs, on the other hand they care a lot more than probably any other school about math contests (these days completely sweeps all the top places on the Putnam exam, it's not even close compared to other colleges). Obviously there's a lot of luck, but his best bet for MIT is to stand out math contests either at a high level (USAMO/MOP) or alternatively via research/college math classes etc. Unless he's heading for TJ which does have significant post-AP classes, or he plans on taking college level classes in the latter part of high school, I don't think trying to bump up by one class will make a difference (he will still have to suffer through watered down mathematics, as an example, see here:  https://blog.evanchen.cc/2016/05/27/fill-in-the-blank/ )[/quote]

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