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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Honestly I think people are getting confused about rigor and APs. Colleges are looking for rigor in CORE classes. They may not even really look at things like art history, unless the student is on an overall arts track. Many selective schools calculate a GPA that includes only core classes and leave out electives, whether AP or not. So filling a schedule with a bunch of random APs is not going to be much of a boost and you may want to encourage your kid to focus on the core classes rather than get distracted by extraneous APs.

I hate this theory of the "lesser" APs. My DS is interested in psych and music theory so he's going to take those along with physics, stats and calculus. He's not interested in English, government, or biology, so it wouldn't make sense for him to take those AP classes. He's not taking them to "boost" anything - he's just taking the classes he wants to take. Seems like the simplest route to having a happy kid with a balanced workload. [/quote]

Then that's great. My DC took AP Psych, loved it, and is now majoring in Psych. My point is that you should take elective APs because you are interested in them, not just because you think a college is looking for a particular number of APs. Colleges focused on rigor are looking at core classes, not the sheer number of APs. I think people overlook this point, and sometimes work in the core classes suffer because a kid is bogged down with the work in elective APs in which they may not even be interested.

I didn't call them lesser APs, but there are electives and core classes.[/quote]

I agree with the above approach. My DS1 took AP classes in world history, American history, English language, English lit, US government, economics, French, and environmental science--all subjects he was interest in. He took regular math and science (other than environmental) tracks (geometry, algebra II, trig, pre-calculus; biology, earth science, chemistry).[/quote]

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