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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of schools that don’t offer AP classes or exams and still send lots of kids to top 10 colleges.[/quote]

The context of what is offered at your school and what other peers are taking is what matters. If your school doesn’t offer AP then take the highest level offered. That is irrelevant to this conversation as you aren’t being compared to the kid w 25. [/quote]

It is relevant.  Taking a rigorous course load is possible without APs.  Taking the most AP classes is not the point of high school.  Nobody cares about AP classes anymore.

Imagine if rather than take 25 APs, which are basic and standard, this kid took half that number, and used his time towards actual college classes at a real college.  He could have been doing advanced coursework and gained real expertise in an area of interest.[/quote]
It’s not possible to get a rigorous courseload without APs in public school. Exception being if it is a competitive “admission only” type public high school like Hunter College HS  or TJ
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Of course it is.  At our local public, Honors Pre-Calc and Honors Calc 3 are both tougher, more rigorous classes than AP Calc AB and BC, which the top kids generally coast through.  There's nothing special about APs, they are just a standardized curriculum.  Public schools (and individual teachers) can have more rigorous classes if they choose.[/quote]

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