counsellor "most rigorous" category

[ucbalumnus]

@Luanne

My S21’s counselor would not answer when I asked, but a friend told me their counselor said 16 AP classes to get the most demanding box checked. And at an IB Diploma meeting, they told us IB diploma candidates do get the most demanding and non-IB candidates need 6 AP classes in both junior and senior years and only 1-2 kids do that each year. So clearly schools vary a lot!

Seems like the school really wants students to choose the IB diploma if it sets the bar for non-IB students to get the “most demanding” schedule box at an extremely high level (16 AP courses with 6 in each of 11th and 12th grade).