<p>marite and 1Down2togo, I had no sense of how rare this (10 AP) was until this past week’s senior awards ceremony. My D never took an AP because it was an AP, she just signed up for classes that she liked and then, this year, decided to get tutored in Music Theory (not offered by her school) because she wanted to take the AP exam and place out of it in college. Has ended up with 11 AP [10 classes (1 as a soph, 4 as a jr, 6 this year) just because this was what she wanted to take. I thought most of the kids did the same thing (her school offers a total of 21 APs, though 5 are in languages) until the senior ceremony last week when the head of school announced that he was proud that the seniors took, on average, 2 to 3 APs. Where the heck was I when she was signing up for all these things? The school doesn’t weight AP grades and doesn’t rank other than quartiles, so it didn’t matter to her if they were AP classes or not. It didn’t seem to matter too much…did cost her one B+, but, other than the 3 she got on the AP Euro exam as a soph, her scores were excellent, so I assumed she learned the stuff. And had lots of fun.</p>