My DD should have started taking AP classes a lot sooner than her junior year. Well. I mean, she effectively skipped 10th grade, but still-- we'd have been a lot better off (er-- or she would, anyway) if she'd been taking the higher level classes (beyond "honors") to begin with as a freshman.
She'll graduate having taken 5 of them and aced them all-- but without having taken the exams for any of them because she simply doesn't care about racking up college credits for the work. We agree completely-- now, she's taking a couple that overlap as dual enrollment coursework at a local community college, actually, three total, I think.
Anyway. Individual students, individual answer. If DD could have, I'd have been tickled for her to have taken 8-12 AP classes through high school. I think that would have been a much better fit for her, myself-- but she really only had the opportunity to take 6 or 7, max, if only because that's all that is offered regularly.
