<p>Taxguy: You said it all when you said, “absent about 40 schools.” Those forty schools are why we are on CC. No one is surprised that some schools don’t care much about Aps and honors courses. Our kids don’t work as hard as they do to impress anybody at those schools. They like to learnthe additional material. They like to work hard with their friends in the tougher classes. In addition, they know that their additional work will matter to folks at the unspoken “forty schools.”</p>
<p>It’s more than 40 schools, though. Probably closer to 60-70.</p>
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<p>I would wager that many are here not because of those 40 schools. I know I am. There is a huge universe of great schools out there and for people to get hung up on those 40 is misguided IMO</p>