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17:41 again. If your child is organized and processes information quickly, he can choose to load up his schedule with AP courses. For kids who are a little immature, it's sometimes best to wait until 10th grade. But then, if they want to play the college arms race, they have to take a good many later, which gets intense if the chosen APs are time-consuming (a lot of reading AP World History) and/or intellectually challenging (AP Physics C- yikes!).

I made a chart for my kid, which took into account his academic preferences (he knew he wasn't a science person), the MCPS graduation requirements (tech, PE, health, art, language), the MD requirements (math class every year), and niggly things like that health class which was only one semester (this may have changed).

All high schools have special programs your child may or may be eligible for or interested in. Check with your counselor, but don't agonize too much, because at the end of the day, colleges just want: the highest GPA kids can possibly get while challenging themselves with the most challenging coursework their high school offers. So it's a game of finding which challenging courses your kid can get As in (unless it's AP Physics C or AP Calc BC, which are very demanding and a B is pretty good).

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Point being: I realized when my son was signing up for 9th grade courses that we actually needed to chart his whole high school course progression at that time. So we really took the time to assess what he wanted to do. Since you're not signing up in winter like the MCPS 8th graders, please double check with the high school that your child can still sign up for all his desired courses (some may be full up).[/quote]

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