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It matters a lot for college admissions, OP. 
Universities want to see that students have pushed themselves to take the hardest classes available to them in their high school. Of course, that also comes with the caveat that universities ALSO want to see the highest GPA possible. For my son, this meant AP everything in the Humanities, and Honors everything for STEM, because he didn't think he could handle AP versions.

It's always a game of "what is the hardest class in which your kid can get an A"? This is why most high schools have add/drop periods in the fall. Students try a hard class, get a bad grade, and drop down a level if they think they won't be able to hoist themselves to straight As.

In some schools, Honors is the new Regular, and Regular is the new Remedial.

Finally, you're correct about the fact that usually, the hardest classes have the best teachers and the most studious and least "troublesome" peer group.

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This is a terrible myth. The colleges want to see (and this what they ask the guidance counselor in the infamous form) that the students challenged **themselves**, not the school catalog. [/quote]

Do you see how you're saying the same thing I said? The child needs to take the hardest class they can get a good grade in. If that's not the highest level of class, just be aware that there are a great many colleges that in your day could have been in play, that today will not be for these kids. And that's FINE, but you need to know this. For example, nowadays you need a high GPA to  be accepted at UVA or UMD. In the past this was not the case so much.

Lordy.

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