<p>To be honest, I am not interested in providing advice to a student whose goal is to become rich. This is just as well, because I am totally unqualified to provide such advice.</p>
<p>One element of californiaaa’s posts that does trouble me a lot, though, is the school’s wishing to keep 9th graders out of AP classes on the grounds that the UC system doesn’t count AP classes taken in 9th grade, in their grade-weighting scheme.</p>
<p>For a magnet school, this sounds like a truly weird point of view. I have felt that the local HS (in the good suburban school category) did try to limit students’ advancement to some extent. I cannot present their reasons, because I don’t really know them. But they did argue that a reason for not permitting a student to advance in math is that then the student would run out of high school courses before senior year, and “have to” (their words) go to the university for math classes. To me, this seemed like an opportunity, rather than an obligation. </p>
<p>On the other hand, the local school was nevertheless accommodating (despite their apparent misgivings) if a student really wanted to advance in math. There were a handful of 9th graders in Calc BC, all earning 5’s on the AP exam, and many more 10th graders in Calc BC. (The school did not offer math beyond that.) In a later year, there was at least one 8th graders in Calc BC. </p>
<p>So if a magnet school is not permitting 9th graders to take AP classes, I’d view that as problematic.</p>