I am naïve. I told my kid to take classes that interested them. She has taken every opportunity to take the AP/GT weighted class when possible simply because she did not want to be in a “regular” class with kids who had not ambition. She will graduate with 8 AP classes and several weighted classes like Pre-AP Latin, Pre Calc, etc. She also took band all 4 years. This year her senior year, she decided to take food science a non weighted class instead of an AP science simply because she is interested in food science.
I am hoping that some admissions com sees that she took a rigorous course load AND took some classes simply to explore thing that might interest her, after all isn’t that what learning is all about? If not then she is screwed.
She won’t be graduating in the top 10% of her class, just the top 18%. But she is a well rounded good kid. We are in texas she won’t be going to UT Austin and has not desire to attend any school in the state.