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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][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]
Many parents here are pay to play, and can’t believe that public education is worth its salt. The top magnet programs blow private schools out of the water. The difference is that they aren’t filled with faculty children and legacies at Dartmouth and Uchicago to get easy admissions. The kids have to work for it.[/quote]

The best magnet schools are the best because of the breadth and depth of post-AP classes…not because they require you take 11…and many actually don’t offer many of the non-core, random APs.[/quote]
Tell that to Stuyvesant, IMSA, Bronx Sci, Brooklyn Tech, Downtown Magnet, TESLA, TAG, Masterman, and Academic Magnet.

You’re really only speaking on TJ. Many magnets are filled to the brim with AP classes.[/quote]

Fine…but is their model to require lots of random non-core APs?  Don’t they have robust post-AP offerings?[/quote]
Depends on the school…? Some schools will just have loads of APs, not really a bad model and those schools tend to have teachers doing post-AP content in the AP courses. Others like IMSA, offer robust post Math APs, but really most magnet schools don’t have much content beyond Linear Algebra/MVC. [/quote]

How is it that TJ and I think Blair are such exceptional Magnet schools?

Even some of our local comprehensive public’s offer Linear Algebra and MVC.[/quote]
Students at most magnets have to work harder in a wider map of courses typically? They also dominate competitions and other competitive activities, because the students are just better.

It’s cool that 5 kids at the local school can take dual credit linear algebra, but to have a high volume of those students and get them to all excel is impressive.[/quote]

It’s not Dual Credit…it’s taught at the school to classes of 20+ kids.

However, you didn’t answer why TJ is I guess so much more comprehensive than other magnet schools.

I guess we are spoiled in this area.[/quote]
DC doesn’t have that competitive of a scene. New York, LA, and the Texas cities (specifically Dallas and Houston) are much more competitive with better schools. In each of those places, magnet schools are the top schools next to privates. It’s to do with the amount of highly intelligent students concentrated in one place.[/quote]

I don’t even know what that means…but TJ does offer robust post-AP classes in Math and STEM.

You still aren’t answering why they don’t offer the breadth and depth of a TJ.

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TJ is only one magnet school. You’re asking why every stem college isn’t exactly like MIT. I don’t know that’s their decision. If you’re interested look at IMSA, SEM, Debakey Science, and Whitney Young’s webpages. They can answer more than me[/quote]
Following one of your suggestions, they clearly offer post-AP math:
[url]https://www.dallasisd.org/Page/89866[/url][/quote]

Looks like just one post-AP math class.

Hey, this is DCUM…again I guess we should be really thankful for Blair and TJ…I thought it was the same experience at all these top Magnets.  It’s not I guess.

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I think TJ is one of the only places that does that many post AP math courses. Most high schools expect more breadth[/quote]

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