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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][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]
I’ll say that they’re highly ranked on Niche, the state’s high school ranking board, newsweek( not sure they still do rankings ), etc.[/quote]

Newsweek hasn’t done rankings in years.  I don’t understand why you don’t just name the school…nobody else has a problem saying their kid goes to TJ or Blair Magnet or Sidwell or wherever.[/quote]
Not from DC and don’t really need to put my information out there? Great that people are willing to say Sidwell, good for those parents. For you, it’s DC’s high school. Does it pain you that much to evaluate past knowing the name?[/quote]

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