AP Classes Advice?

Please, look into that schedule.
Your child should not be taking APES if they’re taking AP Chem. 4 APs a year is plenty. Same thing for senior year, no need for her to take more than 4 APs and 1 honors class.
If she goes to bed at 1 or 2, it’s a HUGE problem for her health. It also means her schedule is not well-balanced and if she’s doing it for college, it may be meaningless since after 8 AP’s the law of diminishing returns applies. With AP Lit, AP Chem, APUSH, AP World, AP Calc, all she needs to have a “perfect record” is AP Spanish and/or AP Physics 1 (or AP Physics C AFTER she took Honors Physics) + anything of her choice. That’s it. There’s nothing else, nothing more even Harvard or MIT or Stanford or Pomona or Wellesley would want - and even if she didn’t have that, it wouldn’t exclude her from consideration.
As Stanford put it “It’s not a game of who has the most Ap’s, wins”.
14 is way overkill :scream:
Please look at her current schedule and especially at next year’s schedule to see what can be cut and ensure she can get 7-8h of sleep a night as a junior/senior.
(AP Calc BC, AP Spanish, AP Physics 1, and one more AP would be plenty for senior year).

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