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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of a junior here.

Building a curricular plan that aligns with your kid’s senior lab is really important at TJ. Sometimes that means “sacrificing” APs for pre-requisites. We also encourage our kid to have some recharge time over the summer—enrichment/fun in areas they enjoy so they aren’t completely burnt out when school resumes. For any new TJ parents out there it’s a myth that the kids are all doing academic work over the summer. Many do. Many don’t. There are many ways to be successful at TJ and it’s not all APs. Other types of enrichment (e.g., volunteering, jobs, travel, creative projects) are also important for college and life.

(And if all APs is your kids path, that’s great if it works for them.)[/quote]

I think the best path to having more choices of a senior lab.  Getting the three major AP
Science classes out of the way by 10th grade, plus potentially DNA Science 1/DNA Science 2 will give a lot of options for Junior year labs.[/quote]
Finishing all three AP sciences by 10th grade isn’t realistic. Taking AP Biology in 10th is fairly common, but AP Chemistry requires completing Honors Chemistry first—if approved in 9th along with precalc or higher, or over the summer if offered—so it is not typically taken in 10th, except by a few. As for physics, students can only take AP Physics 1, or jump directly to AP Physics C, starting in 11th grade.[/quote]

The 9th students who are taking AP Precalc this year are also allowed to take Honors Chemistry, so those requirements will already be out of the way.[/quote]

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