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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We slot into one of the high schools that requires students to select between APUSH or Hon US History in freshman year.  DD is a great student but on the slow side of finishing work.  However, she gets high A's in all her classes in Middle School and is quite motivated.

That said, I can't help but have second thoughts about her taking APUSH in 9th grade.  Her sister took it last year and did well, but it was a lot of work to maintain an A in the class, and pass with a 5 on the AP exam.  I keep hearing people talk about how one should always take "the most rigorous classes", but how important is APUSH in the scheme of things??  DD will very likely enter a STEM field and I can see her continue to pursue higher level STEM classes for the remainder of her HS years.  Is it important for overall college admission to do APUSH rather than Hon US History?  I think if our school had offered NSL in 9th and US History in 10th, we would not be wondering as much as I think another year of maturity for some kids might make a difference in terms of doing well in APUSH.

TIA for your advice.

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This sounds like my dd.  Very conscientious and can do very well.  But tends to spend a long time studying/preparing and gets stressed about not being prepared/doing a perfect job.  She's thriving in APUSH.  It seems to me (an imperfect view watching different kids with different learning styles over the years) that our school at least (WCHS) has eased up the workload from a few years ago.  Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that they still cover the material in the same amount of time, but seem to be easing them into the writing more-- more practice and prep rather than all-tasks.  Giving more of the prompts ahead of time so kids know what to prepare for the test.  I think a lot of that has been going away slowly over the last month, but it has been a very reasonable process this fall and this kid's percentile grade is a good deal higher than older sib who went through a few years ago.

I'd recommend starting in APUSH and keeping sight of things to drop down to Honors if necessary. [/quote]

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