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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of privates don't offer APs. It really simplifies things a lot for kids and reduces stress. I'm glad my kid doesn't have to deal with it. Worth the cost of tuition. And if I hear another smug parent go on and on about how special their kid is because they took 15+ APs - it is diminishing marginal returns at some point.[/quote]

Real privates don’t offer them at all.  They are useless.  Ironically, if you have a child applying to medical school some will ask, and have, “Why did you not take the full sequence of your science at X college/university, your AP high school science program was better than your colleges?”  [/quote]

Yup. Everyone feels so special with all of their APs. Then they get to college and get thrown into super advanced classes with upperclassmen who have been taught the basics by college professors rather than random teacher X from suburbia high (no offense to HS teachers - they are great and deserving of tremendous respect but generally aren't equivalent to a college professor), all while adjusting to college and everything it involves (co-ed dorms, beer, doing your own laundry, etc) and they are way behind and wishing they hadn't placed out of intro classes and hadn't wasted early May in HS taking tests.

The College Board has marketing geniuses. Create a need where one didn't exist and false demand and paranoia around it.[/quote]

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