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I disagree with previous posters, OP. High school courses and the grades your kid receives are important for college admissions, especially core classes that are prerequisites for their more advanced counterparts. So you want answers now, before the beginning of the school year, and your kid has to start one class, only to possibly switch, which will only add to the stress of changing school systems and navigating a new building.

Also, I disagree that course changes can be made easily. Not at all, and especially not when you're asking to move UP. PP gave an example of moving down - that's easier, there are usually more on-level classes than there are advanced classes. At Walter Johnson, for example, there is only one teacher who teaches AP Calc BC, and therefore only so many classes of AP Calc BC, which then have to fit with the rest of the kid's schedule.

Don't be put off by people scoffing at helicopter parents. High school is when every decision starts looking mighty important. You want to pick and choose which issues to pursue, but this seems like a pretty important one, if your kid risks being locked into a track that won't look as good for colleges! Email the principal if you feel you've given the counselor enough time to respond.

If you don't get satisfaction because classes are full, then look at the years your kid has left in MCPS, and look at the on-level and Honors classes that can be taken in the summer, which might free up space during the year to speed up his track.

- parent who cares about academics and whose college kid benefited from a strategic use of MCPS course enrollment.[/quote]

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