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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Bethesda schools in particular you'll find that parents and top students actually have found a way around being "dragged down". They take multiple AP classes early, they take more than one "difficult" language to AP, or CC classes outside of school and really over-do the SSL hours in obsessive ways. All to stand out when it comes to college applications.[/quote]

SSL hours are easy to get depending on the school.  The difference is those kids have the access to ap classes unlike kids at other schools.  [/quote]

What high schools don't offer AP classes? All of them claim to.[/quote]

They all offer AP classes. The eight IB schools tend to have fewer APs because they also have IBs.[/quote]

So was the pp complaining about the IB program?[/quote]

There is one PP, who wanted her kid to go to Wheaton, but he didn't get in and is now at Einstein, and she writes about the "inequity" of being provided IB instead of AP on every thread.[/quote]

IB is not equal to AP.  The lack of AP offerings at Einstein is terrible.[/quote]

Einstein offers 19 AP courses in addition to the 38 IB courses.[/quote]

Most don't want IB.

This is what they claim to offer.

AP Art						
AP Drawing
AP 2D Art & Design 
AP 3D Art & Design 
AP Visual Art Center 3*
AP Visual Art Center 4*
AP Music Theory
*application based Magnet Program 
AP English
AP Seminar
AP English Language & Composition										
AP History & Social Sciences	
AP US History
AP United States Government & Politics
AP World History
AP STEM 
(Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
AP Computer Science Principles
AP Computer Science Java
AP Statistics 
AP AB Calculus
AP BC Calculus
AP World Languages
AP Spanish Language and Culture

Maybe AP seminar is new for this year but they didn't have it last year.  AP Spanish is combine with Spanish 5 and the teacher is really bad.  They aren't offering AP music, nor some of the other arts ones they claim.  And, no AP STEM, I think (I could be wrong but we didn't see it offered).

This is the absolute minimum and there are no other advanced classes.

IB math is not AP Calc AB or BC.  Its a mix of things.  So, if you get to BC, it makes no sense to take IB after that as its under BC.
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