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My senior just graduated, OP, with a dozen AP classes, like many students.

AP is the new Honors.
Honors is the new Regular.
Regular is the new Remedial.

This has been going on for years. 
If you don't know this, you haven't been paying attention.

If you care at all about college admissions, you have to play that game. There are plenty of 4.2 wgpa, multiple-AP students who are rejected from UMD.

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True. When low skill students are mainstreamed, honors becomes regular. It’s not necessarily a bad thing but I agree that you have to be aware of it. [/quote]

Parents want their kids to do well and pressure the school to make exceptions. [b]This has led to things like SAT scores being boosted by 200+ points relative to scores before 1990[/b], or 40% of the class having an A average instead of just 5%.

I even remember when you had to get recommended for classes like AP English. Some parents would pressure the school to let their children into it, which then would dumb it down.

Honors for all was a completely predictable result.[/quote]

The bolded is not the same. [b]Students are better prepared for the SAT[/b], and it has been renormed.

For the rest, you can whine about nomenclature all you want, but the net result is that you need to work the system for your kid. That's all. Honors is now a normal thing, so your kid can only stand out with a ton of APs, fantastic ECs, etc.

It's an arms race. You can choose to participate or not.
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No... definitely not.  But it was renormed to try to erase racial imbalances. [/quote]

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