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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look…did your kid just want to be valedictorian?  Colleges don’t care if you take AP Physics 1 or 2 if you take Physics C.

They don’t really care about Art History or Human Geography or other non-core AP classes either.

I guess if that’s the route you want to take…and have no idea what else the school offers…but it’s overkill.[/quote]
Or maybe you shouldn’t comment without asking better context? 
Some of these were required- if you wanted to take C:E&M you had to take Phys 1 and 2. His school has one of the highest Ap Art history course enrollments in the world- got an award for it a few years ago, students take it for fun, usually sophomore year and the teacher is awesome. Human geo was a requirement. Some of those “non core ap”s are out of interest, others are requirements.

The school requires 11 aps to graduate, so that’s how life goes.[/quote]

Is this Basis or some other school that believes you just take AP classes and that’s HS?

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No but it is USNEWS top 10. There’s definitely a lot of AP classes, but students take other things. I see it as no different than heavy IB schools. [/quote]

That’s because USNEWS generally ranks on how many AP classes kids take (and how many offered).

You will get a high USNEWS ranking if you make kids take lots of AP classes.[/quote]
It’s been ranked #1 by many different sources. The school is just good lol. Half the  teachers have the qualification to teach college. I know people here hate public schools, but the top 10 are great schools that are at the top of the game.[/quote]

Is it TJ?  Why not just say so.  Of course it isn’t…they don’t implement a rigid AP requirement.

What other sources are there?

I don’t hate public schools…but you can’t reference a ranking that is basically entirely dependent upon AP classes taken…and then think your ranking isn’t basically dependent upon forcing kids to take a lot of AP classes.[/quote]
What source would appeal to you? Private schools also have rankings im sure, I don’t keep up with the exeters and choates. There’s a ton out there, Newsweek used to be a big one. I’m not sure why I have to defend my child’s high school.[/quote]

I will take any 3rd party source you have.  You claimed there were others.[/quote]

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