How do the academic opportunities compare to those of honors or AP/IB classes at a regular school?
The average high school student will spend something approaching 40 hours a week in school, and 10-20 hours on homework. By comparison the average college student spends between 15 and 20 hours in classes during a given week, often with classes only meeting 2 or 3 days per week. In theory, the extra time allows for college students to have more time for studying and homework. In practice it just means that college students get extra free time. High school is hard work and often has many hours of work per night and over the weekend. College involves a lot of hard work as well, but it would be unusual that the amount of work grows to such a proportion that gifted students need much more than the 20+ hours a week they’ve already been granted by decreased class time. Homework generally takes one of three forms: reading/research, writing, or working problems sets. Problem sets are a feature of math and science classes and may or may not be graded depending on the policy of the instructor. E
