<p>There’s the issue of the learning value of honors classes, and there’s the issue of managing the GPA. If you have an A/A- students I’d say go for all honors classes and then pay attention to areas where she struggles -and scale back in those subjects. If she is more of a B+/B student, then go for honors in her best subjects, unless she’s enthusiastic and makes a case otherwise. A student who regularly gets a few C’s or whose performance gives you pause might do better without any honors classes -unless they end the year much improved. Again - there is the issue of challenge (which of course is good), but know how honors classes are weighted/or not weighted and do pay attention to cumulative GPA. I know several parents who insisted on far-too-many honors classes for their child and the child would have had better results with a higher gpa in some regular classes. Sometimes there is scholarship/merit money - schools can be very different - based on weighted GPA, or unweighted, or whatever is on the transcript.</p>