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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my perspective, stress comes from any or all of the following:

1. The test itself, because it seems to have become part of the college admissions process. Kids who get 5s tend to send them in, so if you don't get a 5, will the college wonder why you didn't send your score in? If nobody sent the scores in, it wouldn't matter so much, you just wouldn't have the option of skipping english 101. In other words, has the AP become yet another required test in addition to the SAT/ACT and SAT IIs?
2.  More AP tests in public school. My public school kid took 4 APs this year - junior year - compared to a friend in Sidwell who took 1 or 2.
3.  This may not be popular, but my kid is a girl and I tend to think girls stress out about schoolwork in general more than boys? At least comparing my own DD and DS.

Sure, the coursework was hard. But DC would have taken hard courses anyway, i.e. 20 years ago DC would have been in the honors class which was the "hard" class back then.[/quote]

I think your last point is important.  I have a kid in public and had one in private, along with lots of friends in private, and I think the AP classes at MCPS are not really that different in workload throughout the year as the mix of AP/non APs the private school kids take.  So for the majority of the year the workload is the same.  The big difference is in April/May when it's test time.  The private school kids do take fewer AP tests (maybe 5-6), although they also have to do more of the test prep themselves since it's not covered in class the way it is in MCPS.

Maybe your gender point is right too - my unstressed kid (who did take 4 last year but only 1 in 9th and 10th grades) is a boy.[/quote]

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