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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What APs has your DD already taken?  How do they feel about their current Honors English 10 class?  That could help her/you decide about what level of World History and English to take next year. How time-consuming are her extracurriculars?

I also have a DD looking at her courses for junior year this week.  It seems intense to me, but I know things have changed since i was in school.  Here are her choices and reasoning (if I can piggy-back on your thread):

- AP Calculus BC (debating between this and AB, since she's not a super-STEM kid, but is doing well in honors precalc)
- AP Composition & Language (she's looking forward to a more challenging English class than Honors 9 and 10)
-AP World History (has already taken APUSH in 9th and AP gov this year, so she thinks this is no problem)
-Honors Spanish 4
- Honors Physics (will aim for an AP science next  year)
- AP Seminar (although debating with AP Psych)
-band[/quote]
I'd take Calc AB junior year and BC senior year. Otherwise looks good to me. [/quote]

PP here.  That was my initial thought for my kid, but then we looked at the AP scores for her school in the last few years, and the AB scores are absolutely dismal, whereas BC is somewhat better. Could be a function of which students are in each class, but could also indicate a really bad AB teacher. I mean, there have been 39 AB tests taken in the last 2 years at her school, and 26 students got a 1, 12 got a 2, and 1 got a 3.  No 4's or 5's.  It just seems like a terrible choice, but BC may not be right either.  Still debating what to do...[/quote]

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