The problem is that by high school, expectations for academic success are even higher. Colleges would want to also see that your child is a National Merit Semi-Finalist on the PSAT, an AP scholar (taking lots of AP classes), going to Nationals in Math or Science Bowl or the Intel Science Fair Competition.
Wow. This seems quite depressing to me. Like our kids have to be workaholics when they're eleven just to get into college.
Well, the PSAT is just automatic because you should be able to hit semi-finalist without effort.
The AP classes are the least boring of the high school classes, which you should be taking as a matter of course. Again, not much effort involved. You can probably sleep through some of them (like calculus and physics). I always slept through calculus. It was the first class in the morning, and I was generally up until 2.
That just leaves the "extra", so you just find a thingy you enjoy.
That just sounds like high school to me.
