Yep. In my DD's school, Honors and AP classes are weighted.
College coursework, while accepted for credit, IS NOT.
Ergo, a student who plays the game and takes all "honors" high school classes gains significantly in the class rankings sweepstakes over one who take COLLEGE coursework from sophomore year on.
(Insane. Completely INSANE.)
Also just want to reiterate that algebra I, geometry, and algebra II look to become "mandated" high school graduation requirements under the coming storm-- Common Core. This is already true in some states. (Mine being one of them.)
I'd be very, very wary of allowing my child to NOT have those on a high school transcript at this point, if s/he is taking them at that high school but earlier than a graduation cohort year. The problem is that you don't KNOW ahead of time what standards will be imposed on a particular graduation cohort until your child is in 9th grade and assigned a cohort year.
The thing about "exceptions" to those kinds of rules is that while the promises are seemingly easily made... sometimes the exceptions themselves are NOT as easily made as they sounded. (Oh, sure we can do that {in two years}-- no problem! Becomes "I'll have to call {Mr. X} at {state agency Z} and find out what we can do under state law... be aware that we may have no choice but to {do this thing we were promising you wouldn't have to do}...")
