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[quote=Anonymous]OP here  - looks like several similarly confused parents.

Our kid chose not to take AP History, English etc despite being in the higher level classes at our school.

Best advice i got was from an outside friend who has worked in college admissions for many years who said "if studying for the test has even a 10% chance of reducing kid's GPA in final report card of junior year, then do not take the test" - focus should be on junior yr GPA.

If the school was really transparent about it, they would be frank to say for kids who get into top 50 colleges last 2 years since this policy has been in place, here's the % admission rate to Top 50 schools by "took any AP test or not" - frankly they should release the same data for SAT/ACT.

The messaging on this topic (like many others at this school) seems to be entirely focused on the middle academic kid and on "let's not say or do anything to stress kids and parents."

Meanwhile, we all know the randomness of the college process and fact that equivalent elite high schools in every other other state in America do offer AP tests and kids are judged against a national pool not just DMV.

Oh well -  $45k of tuition and i can't get a straight or intellectually consistent answer on this AP question

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