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[quote=Anonymous]Doing GT in ES or MS is not going to contribute directly to impressing a college. It's true that competitive colleges want kids who are taking the most challenging courses possible - this is one message that came through loud and clear during our college trip over spring break. But they are talking about challenging courses in high school, not in ES or MS because they don't see these transcripts, and at most your kid will enter the name of the ES or MS which, unless it has "magnet" in the name, won't signal much to them. (Unless some of the MS classes count as HS courses, which is the case with one of my kids, but the general point still holds.)

The one indirect way I can see GT helping is that it gets a kid on the advanced/honors track, especially in math. If you don't start early on the advanced track, it's nearly impossible to skip ahead from regular math to, say geometry without doing algebra I in between. Also, if your kid likes the GT peer group, they could be a good influence in a general sort of way.

As for the APs, to elaborate on 22:26's point, the colleges don't see the AP test results unless you send them. The competitive colleges generally want 2 SAT IIs (don't get me started on these) and they also generally look to see whether a kid is taking APs because these are known to be challenging. But they don't require you to say whether you got a 2 or a 5 on the AP tests. Of course, if your kid got a 5 on AP Calc (like mine did), then by all means send it to colleges, but it's not required.[/quote]

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