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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just saw the post about dropping in rigor. In our school, a lot of kids are tutored to stay in the rigorous course. Couple years ago, a kid was asked to drop down a level but the family threatened to sue the school to keep him in the class (the parents told us!).

Is the motive for parents to keep their DCs challenged? Or are they concerned about falling out of running for the most selective colleges?

[b]Is it better for get A in the less rigorous class or B in the more rigorous track when it comes to college admissions?[/b][/quote]

I feel like the college admissions person always says it’s getting the A in the more rigorous class. So in test parlance it’s C, none of the two options you gave. Now neither of my kids had T15 type credentials but both were strong students who ended up at T25 schools from Catholic schools.

In some ways, the fact that their private Catholic schools had limits on number of AP classes and pre-requisites to take APs, meant that there was less pressure to keep up with classmates taking APs so I acknowledge public school might have been different.  So in general, my kids challenged themselves in different ways.  They both took four years of foreign language and took Calculus as a senior.  My kid who enjoyed history and math/science took APs in those areas while staying at honors for other subjects like English/foreign language.  The one who enjoyed more the arts and didn’t love science and didn’t enjoy math still took honors in those subjects with A’s and took their APs in foreign language, arts, and math.  It’s possible this worked against them when up against someone that was APs and A’s in everything but at the end of the day, as much as you want to make sure your kid is competitive for as many schools as possible you also have to find the school that fits them.[/quote]

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