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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS took[b] AP NSL, APUSH, AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics, AP Calc AB, AP Stats, AP Env Sci, AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Spanish, AP World. [/b]4 years of foreign language. I would call that most rigorous at our HS.

DD took AP NSL, APUSH, AP Psych, AP Lit, AP Lang, AP World plus DE Abnormal Psych.  I would call that rigorous.

Very few students are going to get into the Ivys, Stanford etc. Merely “Rigorous” is going to be enough to get into many fine universities.  You have to have balance.

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How could you consider your DS to be "most rigorous"? It looks like he chose to not take AP Lit and AP Lang and instead (I presume) take Honors English 11 and Honors English 12. That is a clear cut case of not the most rigorous, right?[/quote]

Engineering student.  They look for different things.[/quote]

Yes, but the counselor (in FCPS at least) would not check the most rigorous box because your son clearly took a step down in difficulty for English. He certainly took hard, appropriate classes for someone interested in pursuing Engineering, but he did not take AP classes in a core subject.[/quote]

MCPS here.  Not sure we have a “most rigorous box”?  Actually, this is the first I’ve heard of such a box.  Seems like a terrible idea for many reasons.[/quote]

[b]It really is stupid. They can see what classes are on the transcript, and they know the types of classes that are offered in FCPS.  They do not need a "rigorous" box.[/quote][/b]

Actually, they don't.  There are 23,499 public high schools in the U.S.
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