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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There definitely are still many universities, including big private and public ones, where you can get enough AP/CLEP credit (if you think AP is a joke you haven’t seen CLEP…) to graduate 1-3 semesters early. Those universities do not appeal to private school families because they are wealthy enough that they do not need to save money on college.[/quote]

The UC schools allow you to do this and they still seem popular at our private.  I might not be excited to leave college early, but if you were at a UC school and could be done with undergrad early and stay to pursue a Masters - there's benefit in that.  However, the kids getting enough APs are not coming from private but from publics that use AP for rigorous courses...resulting in tons of AP tests.

To the public school parent above, I suspect the public school AP class is prepping your child for the test all throughout the year and that taking the AP test doesn't require that much extra work. If your public kid is taking AP classes, I'd have them take the corresponding AP test.  Now, choosing whether or not to take the AP class in the first place (or how many to take) is another question.[/quote]

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