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[quote=Anonymous]You should ask this question at the CAP information night next week - I was not aware that this was being recommended for CAP students (or was this a general recommendation from the Blair counseling department). I have a CAP sophomore - this double science path was not available last year and just started this year so you really should seek out CAP freshmen doing this. A couple of things to consider: 1) as someone pointed out, it will mean no other electives besides language, core classes, and CAP classes. It is difficult to get in the graduation requirements with CAP electives to begin with (PE, technology, health), and many kids do health and/or technology in the summer or as an additional online class during the school year (but CAP students already have 8 classes so this is a lot if there are any kind of ECs). 2) this path would likely mean AP Physics 1 in sophomore year and then 2 more AP science classes after that. Does your child love science enough to take 3 AP science classes in addition to a lot of rigorous humanities classes? On the other hand, if she might want to do something related to science in college, Blair is crazy competitive in terms of college applicants (go look at the magnet student profile that is linked under parent resources on the magnet page to see what she will be up against). CAP is not crazy demanding most of the time, but there are a lot of group projects and it is more rigorous than a regular high school program. So also keep in mind how the adjustment to high school might be and whether your daughter may do better having a PE class (such as yoga) freshman year.[/quote]

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