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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Disagree. I read a board where there is a mom who works in university admissions at a highly ranked school. They want at least 8 APS, preferably more, meaningful and high level ECs and the kid to have a "passion" that they sell to the admissions people. Sorry but it is true now.[/quote]

But not everyone wants or needs to go to a highly ranked school.  The student should drive their own course selection.  I feel like too many parents believe that their kids have to take as many APs as possible to even go to college at all.

[quote]Even though they might not have felt like they wanted to be pushed to do more work in the advanced classes, the truth was that all their friends and the so called "smart kids" were taking the advanced classes. The peer group was all taking the harder classes. The regular classes were not the kids they considered their academic peers and there were much lower expectations for behavior as well.
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Do teenagers really sit around contemplating who is and is not an academic peer and judging people based on whether they were in AAP in middle school?  My DC took some regular, some honors and some AP classes in HS and didn't have trouble relating to his classmates in any class, probably because he had never been labeled as gifted.  He did fine with college admissions with a "medium rigor" transcript and pretty high test scores and he never felt overloaded with homework. [/quote]

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