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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My recollection is that they send a letter home in December, have a meeting in January before the interest deadline and announce acceptance in February.[/quote]

Is acceptance selective, or just box checking? [/quote]

Acceptance isn’t really selective; retention is. Two years ago a lot of kids dropped due to the tough bio class. I think they’ve recalibrated again perhaps with the new end of year misa testing going well and I don’t think the drop out rate was as high last year. [/quote]

They recalibrated by removing that teacher from the program, because she had a personal goal of driving kids out of the program for reasons unknown to anyone except her.
I think a lot of kids drop out over the years because they realize they just don't want to take that many APs, and would rather do DE or take more electives or whatever.  That's all fine.  
I do think that with the expansion of the program (from 6 years ago), they sort of lost the community.  Like they are supposed to all have a mentor, but some of them have mentors that don't show up to the mentor meetings and don't actually do anything.  It's big now, so I don't think there's much of an "apex community."  You get some cohorting in the 9th grade classes, and there's some benefit to that.[/quote]

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