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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dd is taking AP US History as a freshman.  She's doing well so far, but the workload is kicking her butt.  She's up late every night studying.  It isn't busy work.  It is studying for tough exams that seem to be pretty sophisticated in nature.  Sometimes two chapter tests per week.  I'm hoping it will get easier once she gets the hang of the exams, which have a format that is new to her.[/quote]

This is so wrong.  My son was advised to take this freshman year (while in a public middle school) and we left public school forever.  Now he is in a private school that does not even offer an AP in freshman year, and only one in sophomore year.  As for AP History...you can't take that until junior year.  And the beauty of this is that he will be just as competitive as the kid from the public school who takes twice as many APs.  Why?  Because the colleges are looking at what courses kids take relative to what the school offers.  If they don't offer 3 or 4 APs in sophomore year, well, then, he can't take them.  This alone is worth every penny we are paying for private school.  If we had stayed in public, in order for my son to get into his top 20 dream school, he would have had to be taking all those APs.  He is a junior this year and is taking his first AP ever.  And he will have just as good of a chance for his dream school according to our college counselor.[/quote]

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