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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wrote the "don't get this" bit. Both my kids got into good colleges so my comment was just a bit of PTSD. However it annoys me that 10 APs would have been good enough for "most rigorous" when my older one applied to colleges, but now is "very demanding". For current high school students, does that mean that a kid who wants to major in poetry and creative writing is doing AP Physics C because that is one of the "harder" subjects. And then it is annoying that after these kids work so hard, the colleges reject many of them because they are indistinguishable from each other, and admissions then go for the quirkier kid. My younger kid went to TJ - how do they even measure "most demanding" there with all the advanced post AP science and math  courses? Further, some of the most spectacular math talents there struggled with classes like history deemed "easier".  I think that they should get rid of the category.[/quote]

It's definitely subjective and based on what is available at your HS and what was chosen when possible for each individual kid.  It's not data-driven and akin to a recommendation level from the GC.  Certainly a fair one as long as the GC is so, as well as quite a useful one for colleges looking to distinguish kids who otherwise look the same.

It also helps them compare students who attend schools that are unique, such as the schools with "advanced post AP science and math  courses" and HS that don't offer any of that stuff, and maybe fewer AP than normal.  It's not about what you took, but how you challenged yourself based on availability.[/quote]

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