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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get colleges want to see you have taken the most challenging classes available to you. And that, among other things, tips in favor of taking intensified or honors classes. But if these classes are harder and more in depth, why then don't APS students get a .5 GPA bump for those classes? This vague notion that counselors check a box to say you took the challenging curriculum or that colleges everywhere know what the most challenging classes available is at your school (particularly when they keep changing everything), isn't reassuring. [/quote] Because intensified classes are not worthy of a bump - they are what the baseline gen ed classes SHOULD be. They aren't really "advanced" classes; whereas AP classes are. Intensified classes just give the average and above average students a place to go and not be in classes geared toward just getting kids to graduate.[/quote]
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