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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, only the AP or IB classes have a serious workload, and even that varies. Honors classes are only rigorous in math.[/quote]

+1 This.
I've had three go through a W school-- similar in profile to what you describe.
Freshman year, the only class that required any real work for 2 of them was APUSH (this was the only 'real' AP; they also took AP Comp Sci Principles, which shouldn't even be thought of as an AP in terms of workload).  For all three, APUSH took a lot of effort. One also had to put in some visible effort in math (so it was AP and Alg 2 that took some time).

Sophomore year, they took on more APs and math progressed.  AP US Gov wasn't hard, but AP Physics 1 took focus and effort for all of them.  And honors pre-calc is hard enough that it's pretty much on par with APs though it isn't actually an AP.

By junior year, they were in almost all APs and workload/study time ramped up accordingly. Not all AP classes were a big deal, but the math and science APs took considerable effort, and all of the APs  (English, language, histories besides APUSH) took more time than the 'honors' courses they had in previous years.    
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