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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that GDS parents should have anticipated that at some point the school would stop offering the AP test. I understand it’s inconvenient but any school that no longer offers AP course at some point will also stop offering the exam. GDS should provide a list of schools in the DMV where students can take the test.[/quote]

Long time, multiple kid GDS parent here w/ a HS kid interested in UK schools which require APs.

School's email yesterday is typical GDS. Meant to calm but actually stresses. They say nothing about where to test other than the college board link they send. Now parents are left to call dozen pus schools - who the heck do we even ask for? GDS email says to start calling in early september b/c slots can fill up.

I just dont understand how this helps anyone - its purely done for virtue signaling and false de-stress.

The GDS college profile last year stated that GDS kids in 2022 took 150+ AP tests. So what happens now - those 80-100 parents all start calling JR, STA, Sidwell, BCC, etc

The least GDS could have done is to make an arrangement w/ JR or a few schools to guarantee or even fund out if they would take non-students. That college board list has no indication of whether the school takes outside students

Another in a long line of fails by this college office.

I've resisted posting this but here my favorite other fails just from last year 
1) the part time essay reader/yoga instructor who was made a college counselor and who was awful and was fired by end of the same school year when parents and kids who had this person as CC were appalled at her lack of basic knowledge and organization

2) the really sad story of the senior last year for whom college office did not send transcripts and recs to ANY colleges RD. The registrar just skipped over this kid b/c everything done on paper and the kid's "blue sheet" (or whatever that stupid system is) was stuck to another kid's sheet and was never seen by the registrar. Kid ended up having incomplete apps at all schools and matriculated at a rolling college past deadlines. Just a few examples of the "world class" office led by Emily. Instead of adding 2-3 more counselors and better essay readers, she spends all summer planning how to eliminate AP testing on campus. B/c standardized tests are bad and racist and all decisions must viirtue signal first and foremost

3) Lack of any way to look at SCOIR or naviance to see stats of prior kids who went to colleges from GDS last few years. EVen schools who close this option for parents leave access for parents when they go to CC office to view. GDS steadfastly refuses to show us a single data point. Zero. They have the data. They just wont show it. Instead, the CC's use coded language to dissuade or encourage and never have DIRECT stats driven dialog w/ parents. Why?

I will be writing the college office, the board chair, and Yom and Russell.

Of course, it will do absolutely nothing for any of us. They will all grin-f*ck me but actually wont do a thing. They wont even pick up the phone to call a few peer schools to make sure if they even let GDS kids register for APs at those schools. they wont even guarantee that teachers will allow kids taking the tests to miss class for a day if taking the tests

the old schools GDS teachers who ran AP test prep sessions after school (i'm talking about the 30-40 year stalwarts who students love) must all be so sad to see the school become this awful tangle of idiotic decision making

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