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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typical of the 1%ers.  Because of the proliferation of AP curricula at public secondary schools and the elevated GPAs, public school admission proportions are increasing at elite colleges.  Private schools are aiming to muddy the waters, inflate GPAs, and democratize their pool of candidates.  Or rather, Oprah-size it....you get an A, you get an A, you get an A....everybody gets an A in some specially crafted, pseudo liberal arts seminar-class where the requirement is "tell us how you feel" about what you might have read......no paper, no essay, no exam.... just experiential learning....~%#[/quote]

That’s not what’s happening at the local privates that made this decision.  Tons of essays are assigned, As are relatively hard to get, and GPAs don’t get inflated by various multipliers.  Part of the problem with APs in this context is that they truncate the term (instruction for the exam has to be complete by the end of April, so a month before the semester ends) and lower the educational standards (privileging memorization, multiple choice, and trite/formulaic writing, dumbing down courses by creating tests that can’t assume prerequisites — eg stats w/o calc or a high level of subject knowledge on the part of teachers).  College Board, a for-profit corporation, wants to sell as many tests/materials as possible and that means it can’t assume the kinds of resources that private schools have access to.  [/quote]

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