<p>i would say that it depends entirely on your daughter and how hard she wants to work her senior year, especially second semester. As a HS senior taking 5 APs ( and initially planning on self-studying for an additional AP) I would say that first semester the seemingly endless hours of hw and studying seem worth it in the face of college applications and the like, but let me tell you, after I got into college and with graduation right around the corner, I am finding it hardere and harder to perserver through those hours of hw and studying. And soon, I will have to start studing more intensely than ever for my 5 AP exams, even though I found out that that college that I am going to doesn’t even take any AP credits into account unless it’s AP gov’t, which I not even taking. '</p>
<p>The moral of the story here is to seriously take into account how much your child is willing to put into her AP classes, come second semster senior year.</p>
<p>Our son’s schedule next year (senior). School is on a block scedule so four classes on alternate days: Honors Latin 4, IB Math HL, IB Language Arts HL, AP American Government, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, TAG Humanities/Language Arts, Speech/Debate.</p>
<p>If he gets elected student body treasurer or selected for the student government cabinet, Speech & Debate will be an EC only and will be replaced by the school’s Leadership class. It will be his third year in TAG Humanities. The curriculum changes each year but first quarter is always a student-planned team community service project and the fourth is writing, filming and producing a 20-minute film.</p>
<p>That’s seven weighted classes but the school only weights a maximum of five, so two are just because he wants to puruse the most rigorous path possible. The only thing that would have made it more rigorous was a full IB diploma but since the IB is in its first year and doesn’t offer Latin, he could not meet the language requirement.</p>
<p>He has promised to work on essays this summer.</p>
<p>Is there any way she can waive out of AP Env Sci? Your school district seems to try to make it harder for kids to get to college, like ours, with weird requirements that weigh down college bound kids.</p>
<p>I agree that Physics, in some form, is desirable for college admissions. And really just a good thing for being a well rounded college student.</p>