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[quote=Anonymous]Hi, my dd is a freshman at RMIB and now in process for planning the course  registration especially for next year, but also trying to figure out for her jr and sr year. Couple of questions here- TIA!!!

1. 10th: AP stat vs AP Pyschology
She has one room to pick next year along with the band class. If she wants to study medicine in college, which one would be better between AP stat and psych? She said she is fine with either one. Is AP stat more a core subject and AP psych closer to an elective?

2. 11th: with TOK, she has one room left again and wants to do band in that period. But not sure if she should take physics c with AP calc BC that year as RM doesn’t offer physics 1 and she doesn’t want to take IB physics HL. She will probably take either IB bio or IB chem.

3. 12th: Finally she has three rooms that can fill in. But two of them have to be PE  and IB SL(she is thinking IB Econ). So, yeah, technically one left. She wants to keep the band, but would it look like her course selection isn’t challenging enough in her sr year on the college application? In case of keeping band, she will have PE and band but no AP at all that year. Would it be better to take AP stat if she didn’t in 10th or vice versa?

I heard many IB kids still try to take AP classes as many as they can. Keeping band for 4 years, my dd will probably have much fewer than her peers, only like 5. Realistically, how many AP classes in general do RMIB kids take? I read the posts here and someone mentioned 10-16… is that really common? I think we are worried that her transcript can look too naive with 5 APs compared to 10-16. But even without the band, she will end up with 7 APs, how do others take 10? Are we missing something here?

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