This is an interesting thread to follow and I appreciate everyone’s input. My S20 is currently taking AP Calc BC and will take Calc 3 online through UIUC next year as a senior, along with a few other students in his situation. He’s planning to apply for CS at top tier schools, so I’m not sure how this will all play out. In May, he will take the Calc 3 AP exam, as well as Physics I and hopefully he will do well. There has been a lot of missed school due to weather, as well as a teacher’s strike, so it will be interesting to see how he will do and if they covered enough material. Of course, he’s not stressed enough about it to actually do anything outside of class. :))
As for his classes next year, he went back and forth about which APs to take. He was contemplating AP Chem vs. AP World History and whether or not to continue in French and do AP French V (it’ll just mostly be used to get credits in college, where applicable). He decided on AP Chem and AP Physics C, which I think were good choices. Sounds like the AP Chem could potentially be used to place out of Chem in college, so I think this reinforces his decision to do that over AP World. Hopefully this will all work out for him. He wanted to keep a rigorous scheduled based on where he plans to apply.