<p>Who cares? After you finish high school, nobody will care whether you were an A student or B student. As I’ve written in my "Being a class brain isn’t all it’s cracked up to be! " threads, the extra effort required to get a perfect 4.0 unweighted as opposed to a 3.5 unweighted just isn’t worth it. You don’t have to take Honors/AP classes to the hilt. If you’re a math/science person and can’t hack torrential reading, writing, and memorization assignments, don’t take AP US History. If you’re an aspiring writer who finds math impossible to learn well, don’t take AP Calculus. If you’re an aspiring artist who can’t hack it in science, don’t take AP Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.</p>
<p>I used to drink the Academic Performance Cult Kool-Aid myself. Many of you are far bigger drinkers of the Kool-Aid than I ever was, and I was more than obsessive enough.</p>