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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously, people, why do you do this???  [/quote]

I’ll bite, as the OP. My DC is a rising senior who has the “highest rigor” at their school.  Every college and college counselor says high school rigor is the top thing that AOs look at, above everything including the countless threads on honors and ECs. I want to understand what how my DC’s rigor will be rated when applying to a few elite colleges that are reaches. So, no need to vomit. It’s just a question to try and understand an important feature AOs are assessing.[/quote]

Selingo's book from 2018 explains it from his view inside admissions at Davidson Emory and others. 
As do many AO's who do vlogs on reading apps, including ivy-types. They get a list of courses the high school offers and they see the ones yours took.Some have a set scoring system that takes 1-2 minutes for an experienced AO. Some have staff that prescore for the readers.

A quick albeit narrow example
Does the high school offer AP-Physics C, AP Chem, APCalcBC , AP literature, AP Euro, APUSH? These are generally thought of as the hardest. Which did your kid skip among those that were offered? At many schools 1-2 dozen take all of these and many other AP and postAP. If that is possible then yours should have done it.
Next Q at some schools AP lit is offered to top kids in 11th, not quite top kids take it in 12th. What did yours do?
Next Q did they take their language up to AP level?
Next Q is BC calc possible in 11th or 12th? or even 10th? where did yours take it and was it the hardest path? Did they follow it with the hardest courses offered (MVC/DiffEq or LinearAlgebra/Calc-based stats Modeling? Or AP stats whichis the easiest and not calc based).

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