What is a Rigor of secondary school record?

Question

i was looking through collegeboard.com and most of the top school mostly ivies are looking for rigor of secondary school record. what does that mean?

Answer 1

It means the difficulty level of your course load.  A person taking all AP/IB classes has a more rigorous schedule than someone taking honors classes, who has a more rigorous load than someone taking only regular classes.  Most top universities want to make sure you can handle the work at their colleges and have a good GPA while taking difficult classes.