<p>Connections, my son has been doing fine at BU. I should point out that it was only during senior year of high school that he took the lighter load – so that he could concentrate on the application process and also take advantage of some performance opportunities – and the APs he eschewed were Physics II, Calculus and Latin, which might not have been viewed by the colleges as the most highly relevant ones. </p>
<p>Prior to his senior year, he took quite a few AP classes, and he ended up as salutatorian of his class. Fortunately, he has always been one of those students who are mysteriously blessed by being able to earn good grades without excessive studying.</p>
<p>The BU SOT wants kids who can do okay in the two-year theatre history class, which is relatively demanding academically, with quite a few papers to write. The general liberal arts requirements of the degree are really rather light. My son did take a fourth year-level course, dramaturgy, as a junior, and found it to be somewhat difficult. Dramaturgy was an elective course, though, and could have been avoided if he had wished to.</p>