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[quote=Anonymous]My now college students’ scores were all over the place. 3s are fine, no matter what your friends/neighbors/relatives have to say. Most schools won’t give credit for 3s but in my opinion that’s not the only reason to take an AP course. My college kids got credit for some courses but most courses they did score well on only counted as low level electives anyway. Off the top of my head, it was just calculus and English lit that seemed to be truly useful. Within a major, a 5 is really not the equivalent of taking the class and they had to repeat or chose to repeat many of those.  I have one now in HS who is so intimidated because of all the score/grade comparison going on that he dropped his first AP course mid-year even though I told him to just focus on the class and not to worry about the test. He is a terrible test taker and scores in the 60th percentile routinely on standardized tests so his odds of doing well on the SAT or APs are poor. Yet he is very bright as measured by IQ and has intellectual curiosity and a great work ethic which I know will serve him well once he gets through school. But I worry that getting through school with the current system that emphasizes scores/APs etc is breaking him emotionally.

Inevitably people will comment that AP scores are really important and you must load up to have any shot at a top school. But the fact is most kids, even on DCUM, are not going to get into a top school. The pressure on today’s students is incredibly harmful. Most kids will find a wonderful college fit whether they take a lot of APs or not  and whether they earn 3s or 5s (or even an occasional 1). I long ago accepted my kids were not going to a “top” school by DCUM standards but I love the kids I have and know they will be successful. [/quote]

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