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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like the SAT, the AP tests have been completely watered down and are a lot less meaningful than they used to be. This is why private schools have stopped bothering.

I am so tired of hearing of these striver kids from Enloe or TJ or wherever who are takin 20 APs including 4 as a freshmen then end up getting rejected by Ivies and ending up at meh state schools.

I personally think they do more harm than good. I understand they are unfortunately a necessary evil to show a student is taking the most rigorous courses, but they are a waste of time. I would rather my kid take the core courses at the university they are going to than placing into super advanced classes with upperclassmen. Unless the goal is to graduate early, being in advanced classes doesn't get you anywhere.

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You have no idea of what you’re talking about.

That is definitely not why privates dropped AP classes, particularly not in the DMV. They dropped AP classes because they were facing increased competition from public schools and felt they needed to distinguish their academic programs from the public schools to justify their existence and expensive tuitions.  After all, why bother spending 50k to go to private over public where the top student would take the same classes at both?

As for why colleges do not consider AP exam scores in admissions, it’s because AP exams were never designed for admissions purposes. They were designed to get college credit for high school students who complete college level work at a sufficiently high level.  AP exams are not aptitude tests.  
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