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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on the student, what they want to do and what they think they can handle. DD likes to do it all. She is taking APUSH in 10th and plans to take: 11th grade: AP World, AP Lang, AP Chem, AP Calc BC 12th grade: AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Stats, AP Latin, probably an AP social science (Micro/Macro, Euro History, US Gov, Human Geo. So that's 10 or 11? DS, who's graduating this year and going to a LAC ranked in the top 50, will have taken 6 (Micro/Macro, Env Sci, Calc AB, European History, Stats). He doesn't take honors everything; he doesn't want to kill himself and plans his courseload accordingly.[/quote] My DD is similar to yours with an almost identical course selection. But getting B’s in Cal BC. A’s in everything else. [/quote] BC is hard. My kid did AB first, and got a B in first semester of BC. Teacher aims to make it challenging, and over the last 10+ years, has a 99%+ success rate for 4s or 5s on the AP test. In fact it's over 95% for 5s. So my kid got a 5 and took credit for calc 1 and 2 at a T40 as engineering major. Was well prepared for Calc3/4/Diff Eq. And officially that B- became an A- due to the AP test score (but by then the final transcript was sent and who really cares). [/quote] That teacher is a jerk for unilaterally spiking students' grades.[/quote] It was hard because there were a few kids who did really really really well (as in the 10th graders taking BC without any other calc--so way advanced)So they could only curve it so much. Teacher gave my kid a B-, when in reality they had a C+. My kid never got below an A- in school, so yeah it sucked and possibly stopped my kid from getting Into their ED1 (got deferred and then rejected). Because the B- was on the transcript until August after graduation . But overall the teacher was an amazing teacher and fact is in our HS, they want you to take AB first, so 98% of kids taking BC are seniors and it doesn't really affect most. [/quote]
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