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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this subjective or are there defined requirements by school for receiving this designation.  Which child (hypothetical) below would receive the designation?

Child 1:
AP Lit
AP Lang
APUSH
AP Gov
H. Physics
AP Environmental
French 5
Pre Calc
AP Stats

Child 2:
MV/Dif EQ/LA
AP Physics: Mechanics
AP Physics: E&M
AP Chem
AP Environmental
AP Stats
H. English 12
ASL 4
H. US History
H. NSL Gov
AP Micro/Macro
[/quote]

Funny how the guy with Multivariable didn’t do AP Calculus BC.

Not having an AP in English is a red flag considering that 20% of all students nationwide take it, something like 600k.[/quote]
Good catch on AP calc. Perhaps the PP is implying that AP calc was taken in middle school, though that would be unusual.

I would disagree on AP English being some sort of red flag. This may differ by admissions office, though generally my understanding is that overall rigor is more important than missing one type of rigor.

I have a kid at a T10 with no AP Lang/Lit, and did not have past level 3 foreign language (though I don't want to get this thread off track); he did have APUSH and AP Euro for the humanities side, and from the stem side, AP calc AB, BC, stats, and multivariable, Physics C, and a couple other APs I can't remember. Apparently, that was enough.[/quote]

Not having an AP in English is absolutely a red flag. High schools don’t have honors English anymore, it’s either AP or regular English. In urban areas, at highly rated high schools about half the students take AP English as the most popular AP exam. Regular English is actually remedial English by another name.

I never pay attention to anecdotes posted on DCUM, and I won’t change that for your “T10 kid”. In fact, chances are you’re lying about it. [/quote]

a "red flag" to who? why is there so much alarmist sentiment on this website. I'm sure kids with AP math & science and no AP english go to great colleges too. don't spread so much anxiety please![/quote]

Look at the numbers:

2 million kids per year go to 2 and 4 year colleges.

0.6 million took AP English, add to that the kids taking IB and DE courses and you’ll see that about half the students going to college take some type of advanced university level English.

Maybe kids without still get most rigorous check mark, but it’s doubtful.[/quote]

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