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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like many posts speak about how their DC has the highest rigor. Still, I would assume the definition of highest rigor is different based on both what schools offer and how challenging those classes really are. What schools in the DMV would be in the top echelon of highest rigor, assuming a kid takes the hardest classes there? TJ? Sidwell/NCS/STA/GDS? Others?[/quote]

This isn't what highest rigor is. Highest rigor is a judgment call made by counselors to describe whether a particular student took the hardest classes offered in their particular school. So yes the definition is different school by school. A school may offer 2 AP classes or 20. A student who took both classes at school A would have taken the highest rigor. A student who took just 2 AP classes when 20 were offered did not. If you want to know what it takes to have your kid's counselor note your kid as taking highest rigor you would have to ask your counselor where they draw the line in that school.

It seems you are asking something else to compare schools to other schools. You can compare AP or IB offerings of course, but it gets hard if you add in privates because a lot of privates stopped offering AP courses. But maybe their own courses are similarly rigorous. [/quote]

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