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I’m not sure if I should laugh at your comment and ask if you are sure you thought that one through? I’m sure there are smart kids who play sports and can’t devote the time to quite as much as this particular student did, but this girl made a choice to forego other activities to focus on her school work - she deserves what she earned. There is no reason any student in band, orchestra, theater, or sports can’t take AP classes too.

My comments are well thought out, thank you.

Athletes can, and do, take AP classes, and do quite well.

My point is that their activity, be it art, music, sports.. will ultimately bring down their GPA, as it is only a 4.0 class.

Those that only take 5.0 AP classes, with no extracurricular activity, mathematically will always have higher GPAs, because they have way more 5.0 classes in the average.

Technically, after two years of my college career I had an associates. Most people do. It’s just not worth mentioning since you’re going for a four year degree. However, doing it while in high school is something exceptional.

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.