I am seeing a trend of students doing at least one AP test from each core subject area before their senior year ...math, science with lab, math, foreign language and english. And I have seen students getting into highly competitive schools with not an insane amount of APs.

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My kid's senior year: AP Stats, AP Spanish, AP English, AP Econ, AP Environmental Science, AP Government. And it wasn't considered to be all that difficult because it didn't include AP Calculus.

What APs did your kid take in previous years?? Are you in DMV?

This would be a very typical senior year schedule at our mcps high school, minus that ap gov would have been taken frosh year but many schools order social studies differently.

Anonymous wrote:Referring to K-12 US education, not colleges and universities

Agreed. And most of the professors and researchers are immigrants. Higher education and research in US is outsourced mainly because US k-12 education does not produce too many well educated students.

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My kid's senior year: AP Stats, AP Spanish, AP English, AP Econ, AP Environmental Science, AP Government. And it wasn't considered to be all that difficult because it didn't include AP Calculus.

What APs did your kid take in previous years?? Are you in DMV?

Anonymous wrote:I truly question this - if US schools are so much worse than many other countries, then why do so many foreign students come to college in the US? I never hear of US students going to Germany for college.

Colleges and public high schools aren't the same. And within colleges there is a huge spread between people there to get a degree to check a box and those that are there for research, education, getting a good base toward a very specialized field.

It’s actually a humble brag way of saying you are foreign service and getting that into the conversation.
Sort of like saying, “I went to college in Boston” when you went to Harvard.

I mean, there’s a time and place for discussing the quality of the US national education system, but it’s not on a post about AP statistics.

Referring to K-12 US education, not colleges and universities

I truly question this - if US schools are so much worse than many other countries, then why do so many foreign students come to college in the US? I never hear of US students going to Germany for college.

That is why FS families do their best to do PSPs or DC “hardship” postings b4 their kids are school-age, they’re aware of how far US public education is fallen, sad
They will have advantage especially in HS