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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do the boxes say after most rigorous?[/quote]

According to my child's HS counselor, the next box is "very demanding", which is what she gave his transcript. 10 AP/IB classes but didn't do the full IB Diploma.[/quote]

I don't get this category. Are they going to keep escalating until 16 year olds are have to produce Ph.d thesis level work?  At the same time, they want kids to "follow their passion", but how can they do that with 20 AP classes?  And while showing commitment to band, foreign languages, service, sport etc etc. And then the colleges will turn around and chose the girl who grew up traveling on the rodeo circuit anyway.[/quote]

I suspect this is an example of something that started with one purpose and morphed into another.  For example, at DC's school, there are honors classes in a number of subjects but everyone takes the same English course each year.  The "most rigorous" box was probably a way for the college to know that there was not a more advanced English course DC didn't take.  But then parents started stressing about about what it takes to check that box and probably have overblown what it means to have that versus another category.

Still, it comes down to how colleges want to weight things.  How does my DC's "most rigorous" with high grades but pedestrian extra curriculars compare to someone else's "very demanding" with strong, but not quite as high grades, and significant other attributes?  It's going to vary from college to college and student to student.  [/quote]

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