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Block vs every class is a separate discussion from the issues you mention, OP.

My kids and their friends take as many APs and post-APs as they can cram into their schedule. That is emphatically not a casual high school experience! My oldest is at a selective university and is coasting thus far, because his AP teachers at Walter Johnson did a good job of preparing him for it.

High school, with its a la carte courses, is what you make of it. Please bear this in mind before running to pay 60K a year per kid. A private uni is going to cost you at least 70K. My son's is 85K. A lot are now in the 90K range.

I have friends with kids at Sidwell and St Albans. Listening to them describe the curriculae, I don't think it's very different from the most demanding MCPS courses. University admissions are the same if you compare apples to apples (the same student profiles with the same lack of hooks). The environment is different - although at wealthy Bethesda MCPS schools where seniors arrive in new Jeeps and Teslas, not *that* different. But that is also a separate discussion!

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