<p><em>First, let me admit that I barely skimmed this thread; I apologize if my comment is redundant. But mathinokc’s post caught my eye:</em></p>
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<p>mathinokc: One earlier post mentioned that their school limited freshmen & sophomores to 0 APs and juniors & seniors to 3.</p>
<p>I hate to see arbitrary limits placed on students. Instead, set up a standard course sequence and define pre-reqs for the advanced courses and let the kids who can get the pre-reqs take the courses earlier.</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshman this year taking 3 APs (French, Calc BC & Chem). Really, the work load hasn’t been that bad – she probably averages around 1 hour of homework a night. I think she’d be incredibly frustrated in any lower course in those topics.</p>
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<p>*I read this post and am baffled because it is so foreign to my experience. My d is a senior and has been limited to three honors/AP classes a year. (APs: one soph, two junior, two senior). She is taking her fourth year of French and will not take Calculus BC while in hs. She attends a rigorous private school and averages 3-5 hours of homework 7 days a week. She is a solid A/B student. I don’t know whether it is the course load as a freshman or the one hour of homework that threw me. Lest it be wondered if perhaps the homework load of 3-5 hours a night and the A/B gpa indicates a student who struggles, d is a NMF, AP Scholar, etc. with a 2370 SAT. I know of no student at the school who could get by with around 1 hour of homework, much less the ones with any APs. </p>
<p>No offense meant to mathinokc by using your post as an example. It just reinforced how different high schools can be - and I truly wonder how college admissions sort it all out. </p>
<p>FWIW D would love to be able to say that homework takes about one hour per night. :)</p>