It depends on what the child/teenager/young adult wants to do - and when she wants to do it. My daughter planned her AP and honors classes while in middle school because she was bored with classes and wanted to sleep late rather than keep riding the bus. Got to high school with a bunch of HS credits and pre-req's completed, did the usual band (percussion and Beta Club, math club, etc and stayed with Girl Scouts - but not all the way there) the first 1-1/2 years.
Signed up for college classes via the school district and went full-time to the local technical college for a BS in Physics INSTEAD of taking more AP classes her junior and senior year. (Her college class credits gave her HS credits in English, math, writing, sciences, etc. ) Graduated at age 18 from Southern Polytechnical University in Marietta GA three weeks before her 18th birthday with a 4-year BS in Math and a second BS in Physics.
And got her high school diploma mailed to her the same day.
Earned her MS in library science with mostly on-line classes from the University of Alabama, then got hired at a local university in the library science department teaching library courses and computer science classes before age 20.
Is a taxpayer. Conservative. And we didn't pay anything more than the standard school taxes each year. She earned the rest on her own merits.
It’s nice when one’s child is a success! There are a lot of different routes for different people.
The GPAs going up to 10, though ... that’s kind of nuts. It seems to me that if a school wants to weight more difficult classes, they could simply double the grade, so that an A for an AP class could count 4.0 twice, rather than 8.0.
That is just astounding !
Wow, what an exceptional young lady.