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My senior just graduated, OP, with a dozen AP classes, like many students.

AP is the new Honors.
Honors is the new Regular.
Regular is the new Remedial.

This has been going on for years. 
If you don't know this, you haven't been paying attention.

If you care at all about college admissions, you have to play that game. There are plenty of 4.2 wgpa, multiple-AP students who are rejected from UMD.

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Except they are all coming out of the same small number of high schools, which reduces their chances. My DD had friends at Whitman that were doing 2 science AP classes in sophomore year and taking college level classes at home, to give herself the edge. The more you push, the more pressure you put on everyone and the more it takes to be something higher than the general output of 4.0 (unweighted) kids.[/quote]

What's true is that if you're in a wealthy MCPS cluster and you want do be competitive for college admissions, you have to take more APs than if you were at a school that offers fewer, since universities get the info sheet from each high school, and want to see that an applicant has taken advantage of their opportunities. It's the price you pay for getting overall better teachers and a more studious student body. I've had kids at Walter Johnson and will have kids at BCC, and I think it's a fair deal. Pros and cons.

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The teachers aren't always better.  [/quote]

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