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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI has AP options in every nearly subject- English, African American history, science, and pre calc and calc. No foreign language AP for some reason.  These are taken 9&10th grade and i believe placement is based on MAP test score. This is relatively new at DCI, I could be wrong.

11th and 12th grade it’s all IB.

This is for IB track. Not sure about career. [/quote]

That is great to hear!  I did not know this.  So the high performing kids can not only take AP classes in 9th and 10th grade but also the AP tests.  This will further strengthen their college applications with good AP scores to show mastery in addition to the IB courses, grades, and diploma.

It is commonly known that the IB language test is much, much harder than the AP language test so maybe if they have to take that then no need to do AP language.
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Yes this is why our family did not opt to apply to Walls which seems like a good school but doesn’t offer the same level of rigorous curriculum as offered by DCI. [/quote]

DCI is more rigorous than Walls? Haven’t really heard that before.[/quote]

The highest track possibly so.

We can debate that forever but the fact is Walls is going downhill thanks to DCPS and DCI is on an upward trajectory by offering students more - more advance math, more AP courses earlier, more tracking and uses objective standardized testing for placement..

You can’t say that about Walls and they have taken away any objective testing.[/quote]

Walls obviously doesn’t have tracks like DCI but the highest achieving kids at Walls take really challenging schedules- 5 APs junior and senior years, 2 or 3 APs sophomore year, dual enrollment classes, etc.[/quote]

No interest in walls but dci has IB math AA and AI.  The highest math track will take ap pre calculus and calculus as freshmen and sophomores. It also offers IB HL and SL in chemistry, biology, physics and environmental science. One of the reasons we felt walls was not a good fit was the lack of science offerings. Plus the related STEM clubs and extra curricular activities were not present at walls or not as popular. Walls won’t prepare children sufficiently for stem based careers. [/quote]

Thanks for the response- of course you had to make an unfounded dig and claim in the last sentence, but otherwise an actually informative post.  And don’t worry about those Walls kids, plenty go into stem based careers.[/quote]

No one is saying Walks kids can’t go into STEM fields but it’s a well known fact that Walls is not strong in STEM and is more a humanities field.

Walls is not going to prepare kids as well who go into STEM. They don’t offer all AP STEM courses.  They don’t offer anything past Calculus.  They don’t have strong STEM clubs or robotics team, etc….[/quote]

So why on earth is the only Calc 3 class in DCPS located at an anti-STEM school? Maybe DCPS could move it to McKinley, so that kids who didn’t charm their 8th grade teachers but who are really really good at math could have a chance to, you know, study math![/quote]

I’m the poster whose children went to dci. We were not language people only applied to dci because of the STEM offerings. I have been asking myself the same question. WHY isn’t McKinley offering better and stronger STEM courses?  Why? We were super lucky to get into DCI and are happy there, but it would have been great to have the option of McKinley. [/quote]

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