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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some on this forum may not consider UVA a “top college” but my kid got in and  took AP lang in 11th and DE English in 12th, as did many of her UVA-bound classmates. [/quote]

This is great news. Was this recently? What was the most common highest AP Math?[/quote]

Yes. She will be a “First Year” this fall. Highest math was Calc BC. At least one AP class in each subject area, including World Language. [/quote]

Do you mean every subject except English? [/quote] 
She took AP Lang, but not AP Lit. Took DE English instead. Kids that got into UVA a year ahead of her, did the same thing. [/quote]

At my kids FCPS base HS, kids who take AP Lang (which is a junior year class) are not allowed to take DE English. It’s considered a repeat of AP Lang and a step down from AP Lit. It’s mean for kids who are community college/ lower half of VA state state schools tracked, because the kids end up with no AP English.

I’m a once upon a time English major.  AP Lit is probably harder to many kids because literary analysis is a skill and most kids don’t have a lot of experience with it. I though AP Lang was much better in terms of college prep— for my STEM kid and my humanities kid. Non-fiction texts and a huge focus on analytical writing. Multiple drafts of research papers and such. Not fun, but very useful in many different college classes.

Expectation out of FCPS is top grads take both, Lang in 11th and Lit in 12th. (Except at TJ which has a different English track and you choose one or the other in 12th. My science major did Lang, which I think was a good call). [/quote]

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