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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really depends on the high school.  Different schools have different class offerings.  Also, your kid wants to take a sufficient number to be, for example, in the top 10% of the class.

As an aside, I think is daunting to look at admissions numbers and see that the average admitted student to UVa or UMCP from Fairfax or Montgomery county has something like a 4.5 weighted GPA, and then work backwards to see how many APs that requires.[/quote]

OP here. My kid is at Langley. It feels like everyone takes at least 10 AP so that would not be considered rigorous. I hate that my kid is at this pressure cooker school.

The seniors parents I know or the ones who had kids graduate seemed stressed about even getting into UVA with perfect grades. These kids all have 4.5+ GPAs.[/quote]

Same. I don’t hate the school at all, but I do regret the choice. It’s really, really hard to be top 5%-10% of the class when the top 20% has a 4.5. And- we moved and kid entered as a sophomore.  It requires a transition that most colleges don’t allow for.  Accommodations and preference for all kinds of hardship in life, but colleges don’t give an inch for moving across the country into such a pressure cooker.  First semester there tanked the college wish list even though grades went back to fantastic and impressive rigor.   Good education, nice people, terrible strategy for college admissions.[/quote]

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