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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you find out what the top 5-10% of your kid's HS is doing with regard to APs?

-parent of HS freshman who has no clue about all this[/quote]

Here is what we did with our older child (we had "learned the ropes" for our younger kid):

- take the AP class offered to 9th graders, b/c students who will wind up in top 5-10% of the grade (and I don't mean via just gpa b/c there are many kids with 4.0s in mcps) will ultimately have a heavy AP load so you are getting off on the right track - in my kids' HS this was AP NSL which is a class very easy to succeed in so great for 9th graders and a first AP
- make sure by graduation you have taken an AP in each of the 5 core subjects - english, math, history, world language and hard science
- go deep in APs in a subject area that interests you - for some kids that is hard science, for some it is history
- as a soph (or even frosh) sketch out a few possible course pathways for future years so you can get in requirements and still fit in APs (i.e., some AP classes are double period in the hard sciences so if this is your passion you might need to play with your schedule to make sure you can fit them in later)

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