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[quote=Anonymous]From my perspective, stress comes from any or all of the following:

1. The test itself, because it seems to have become part of the college admissions process. Kids who get 5s tend to send them in, so if you don't get a 5, will the college wonder why you didn't send your score in? If nobody sent the scores in, it wouldn't matter so much, you just wouldn't have the option of skipping english 101. In other words, has the AP become yet another required test in addition to the SAT/ACT and SAT IIs?
2.  More AP tests in public school. My public school kid took 4 APs this year - junior year - compared to a friend in Sidwell who took 1 or 2.
3.  This may not be popular, but my kid is a girl and I tend to think girls stress out about schoolwork in general more than boys? At least comparing my own DD and DS.

Sure, the coursework was hard. But DC would have taken hard courses anyway, i.e. 20 years ago DC would have been in the honors class which was the "hard" class back then.[/quote]

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