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[quote=Anonymous]It appears that different high schools have different options.  At ours, kids can choose AP NSL or honors US History.  It seems like most, but by no means all, of the kids who have followed the advanced math and enriched social studies track at our high school have opted for AP NSL over the past few years.  However, most kids in Honors history are still headed to college and opting for that class won't impact your college chances.  As the previous poster pointed out, at our school, if you take AP NSL in 9th grade, you are committing to APUSH in 10th.  Most kids don't seem to find AP NSL particularly challenging, but many do find APUSH hard (LOTS of reading), so you need to consider what your kid will take in 10th grade and how APUSH would fit in with that.

I've got two kids -- my older one opted to do Honors US History in 9th and then AP NSL in 10th and that kid is now at a Top 20 college.  My younger kid, who's more into social studies, opted to do AP NSL in 9th and APUSH in 10th and did fine in both, although definitely found APUSH to be a lot more work.

If the issue is a social one, I'd suggest posting on your high school's list serve, since you will get more relevant info about practices at your school there.[/quote]

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