@ucbalumnus I would say more than 50% of the kids on the +2 math track at our high school opt out of other honors/AP classes. They tend to be the math/science honors kids and stay away from honors English and foreign language and history. Not all of them, of course, but many and especially the ones who already know they want to apply as engineering majors. Our son, however, does very well in those other subjects and so his work load is rough if he doesn’t prioritize. AP math and science is tough, but AP English classes and history classes are very time intensive and that leaves less time for focusing on math and science. It can be done but usually results in a little lower GPA since there’s really only enough time in a day to get all of the work done and hard to excel at all.