Yes-- no two ways about it, AP courses are by far the best- designed, and largely the best-implemented courses that my DD has had in her school career.
With the possible exception of the Great Courses material that were the basis for the GT literature electives back in middle school.
The assessments are mostly okay-ish-- with a few genuinely stoooooopid entries.
DD earns A's, but doesn't feel like playing the game for A+ grades, and we leave her alone about it. This is her way of compromising on intellectual freedom/honesty with the course expectations.
She also does not take the AP exams-- not that I think she wouldn't do well (because I think she'd earn 5's) but because this isn't why she's in those classes to start with. It's about credentialling, her transcripts, and most of all, least-worst fit academically. Credit and exam scores aren't part of the picture, since we don't care if she gets "credit" at a college-- we'd rather pay for dual enrollment than AP exams.
