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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me how AP works with the CAP requirements?

I don't have a lot of familiarity with AP and what's expected by competitive colleges, but if DC does CAP, it looks like she will take US History at an honors level but not AP, freshman year.  She's also being placed in Honors Physics, but again that's not AP. (Not CAP either, I know.)

Are these classes that colleges are normally looking for an AP class in?  What's the norm?  In your experience, do CAP kids end up taking fewer AP classes?[/quote]

PP again. The freshman US History class is a CAP class (not AP, but not regular Blair either).  It is interdisciplinary with other CAP classes in English, photography  et cetera.

Most kids across MoCo don't take APs in anything during Freshman year. School counselors really discourage kids from taking AP classes freshman year because most kids really aren't ready for the rigor. There may be a few hard core kids (if you've read The Overachievers about Whitman, think about AP Frank) who take 1-2 APs Freshman year. But for the vast majority of kids, Honors Physics is challenging enough in a schedule of 6-7 other challenging classes. Many CAP kids do, however, end up doing AP bio, AP Chemistry or AP Physics in junior or senior years. Also AP Calc AB or AP Calc BC, but again not until junior year. [/quote]

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