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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: APs, most MoCo high schools permit freshman to take at least 1 AP, and some even more. But wherher your child gets credit comes down to how they score on the AP exam and whether and at what score the college accepts. The teachers at my kids’ MoCo hs have a good handle on what scores are needed to get credit at UMD, but you can check this on the colleges’ websites. You have to balance your kids’ ages/maturity/interests with number of APs which is hard to do so obvious advice is to start slow and work up. [/quote]

There is pressure to do this, but I would resist it.
Why push someone who just got out of middle school to take (supposedly) college level material?
This is an example of people losing all perspective.

I attended a lecture (from the Counselling Dept of a W high school) where parents were told, have your kid take AP if they intend to enter that career field (like calculus for kids who want engineering) and/or have exhausted the high school level curricula (e.g., say they entered high school two years ahead in math).

I think that is healthy, though it flies against the driven culture in DMV.

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