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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the prestigious private schools y’all want so desperately to go to are dumping AP left and right- many even got sued for it.

AP ain’t what it used to be.[/quote]
It used to be that you had to get the ok to take AP-you had to show you could handle the course work. This is no longer the case. I think colleges will start not taking as many APs because students are coming in not prepared when they skip the intro courses. [/quote]

Except public universities still take them and saving a semester or two off on pre-reqs can be the equivalent of 30-40k.

As for IB vs AP: AP’s strength is that you can take AP courses and tests  even in your sophomore year and you can study for them ahead of the course itself so that it isn’t as difficult. IB isn’t as mainstreamed so it’s difficult to prep for over the summer. This is important for kids when lots of sports or extracurriculars- to get a review before the school year starts.

I’m glad to hear that RSS is keeping calc bc. This is the one course that I actually want for my kid because it equates to two semesters of calc and an engineering course at UVA.

It would be nice to have AP so that the pressure of exams is spread out over the last two years.

Someone was mentioning that colleges take IB. This is true. But some colleges automatically take AP test scores of 5 but have to evaluate the student if it is IB credits. I think it was Yale or Princeton?  Anyhow- it’s just one class makes sense but it’s also so much work and pressure in their senior year. [/quote]

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