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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of kids at WJ, but the administration is excellent, and it works.  My 2 kids, one quirky, one a varsity athlete, both were easily able to find their people among the crowd.  I think because there are so many, no one is left out or feeling alone, because there's always another group of kids to turn to.

Neither felt it a pressure cooker either.  They both ended up with 12 APs, because they are both excellent students who wanted to take AP and honors courses.  No tutoring.[/quote]

I’m seeing this a lot.  Are kids taking way more APs than they did in my day?  Early 2000s.  I took 8 and graduated top of my high school (NOVA).  It wasn’t Thomas Jefferson or anything, but I’m surprised how early students are starting AP and how many they’re taking.[/quote]

It's the arms race of college admissions. Not many APs actually give college credit - it depends on the AP, the major, and the university - but what drives this is the competition just to get admitted to college. It's insane. We just lived through that this year, and my kid is happy to go where he's going, but... wow. It took a stellar profile all 4 years of high school to get into a middling uni with merit aid. A generation ago, he'd be Harvard-bound. So manage expectations accordingly :-)

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