The 2 years is the nature of IB. And it’s the most rigorous available at her school - it’s just not very flexible. She has to have IB French for the diploma and there’s no possibility of taking it online. She took highest available courses freshman and sophomore in social studies (no APs are offered before those honors courses are taken at her school). She has to have an IB social studies course and her school offers: 20th Century History, Economics, and Psychology at the SL level - she cannot take an HL for social studies as she’s already maxed out. Her counselor is fine with her taking AP Physics with her IB HL sciences although acknowledges it’s a heavy load. He will not agree to add another social studies course for an 8th class senior year so she could take APUSH or APGovt and frankly I think it would be insane with her other courses.