[Ciexyz]

I took a number of advanced courses in 11th and 12th grades that have broadened my education. I would have been poorer intellectually without that knowledge. A student is still developing at that point, IMO.

[Kevin OMalley]

I took advanced courses as well. It was still a waste of time. At the time I was in high school, if one took every AP course offered, he could have built up enough to challenge about 1 semester's worth of college credits. I bypassed all of that by taking just one test. If I had heard about the CHSPE earlier, I could have had 4 years of college under my belt by the time my peers graduated high school, which trumps whatever "advanced" courses would be offered by any high school, especially the heavily liberal indoctrinaire ones.

[Max Combined]

"I took a number of advanced courses in 11th and 12th grades that have broadened my education."

Any reason that you could not take those classes at a community college? My daughter is studying chemical engineering at Rice, but she went to community college at 15. She went to community college for three years and got over 90 credits and she took all sorts of classes to broaden her education that she would not have taken had she gone straight into Chemical Engineering, since so much of the Chemical Engineering course work is prescribed by the department.

At community college she took things like extra English classes, accounting, economics, private voice lessons, Spanish, as well as all the calculus, physics, and chemistry classes that permit her to take a lighter load at Rice.