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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My advice is to create a junior year schedule that is rigorous but also balanced enough that she would excel in her classes. A friend's son didn't take APUSH and was accepted into Stanford. I think it's the overall application. Focus on her strengths. If she thinks she can put in the time and do well in APUSH, then take APUSH. If she's taking other rigorous APs, then considering dropping down to honors USH. [/quote]

Yes that is the plan - to take honors USH because we’ve heard AP Chem is really hard. We want to focus on the AP math and science classes. She will be getting an A in AP World and will be able to show rigor this way. I just don’t think it’s necessary to put the time in into a course she has no interest in.[/quote]

I'd say to go with what interests her and let the college admissions fall where they may. Kid stopped a foreign lang after soph year even though we and he knew that would probably hurt him with UVA, then his top choice. He really disliked it and wasn't good at it. He took a very rigorous AP courseload in every other area, it just didn't include foreign languages. This turned out well for him. He was happy with his classes, he did better in the classes he took than he would have in foreign lang. He also moved on from UVA, ED'ed to a different school (highly selective) and got in. So it all worked out.

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