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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC took 10 at Langley and was not considered “most rigorous”.[/quote]

Similar for my son at Chantilly HS. He took 11 APs:
- AP Comp Sci A (plus a post-AP computer class)
- AP Calculus BC (plus multi variable calc)
- AP Lang
- AP Lit
- AP Psychology
- AP Physics C
- AP Physics E&M
- AP Chemistry
- AP Spanish
- AP Government
- AP Statistics

But since he did not take AP World History nor APUSH during his sophomore and junior years, he does not get the "most rigorous" box checked off. Which is pretty ridiculous in my opinion.[/quote]

Look, it is unfair, but I assume your DC had to take Honors or Grade Level equivalents of AP World History and APUSH...in which case, what is listed above is not the most rigorous.  AP Psych is an elective that I am not sure any college really cares about.  AP Stat is also considered an elective AP vs. a core class AP.  I realize your DC may have maxed out their Math with AP Calc BC and Multviarble and AP Stat was the only thing remaining...in which case it probably would have made more sense to take AP World and APUSH instead.  [/quote]

Chantilly PP here. Very true... he chose to take Honors instead of AP for the two history classes. He took Psych and Stats because he thought they would be useful in his future CS plans (and he said that his Pysch class was his favorite course during his junior year). I'm not worried. I[b]f he doesn't get into UVA or VT, then he will do just fine going to Penn State or NC State.[[/b]/quote]

Agree 100%. If studying engineering/CS, appears that VT doesn't even want high stats kids from NOVA anymore. Think TJ sent less than 10 last year!  Really weird. 
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Virginia Tech wants URM and First Generation students[/quote]

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