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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, this is one of my favorite themes on this forum!

My poor, poor child is sooo disadvantaged because they attend one of the most expensive and “elite” private schools in the world. Despite being better off than 99.99% of the people who live now or have ever lived on this planet. But we will soldier on under this heavy burden as it develops true resilience and grit in the face of such adversity!

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Clearly a public school parent. No the lack of AP is something private schools will need to address. Parents are figuring out that not having AP hurts top
students. Suddenly students who have all As in easier classes getting better college results? When this happens it is because the school might be positioning that all the classes are hard and the top classes are really not that much different. With AP You have a proven curriculum and AP score to back this up. No one can say the AP class is same or close to regular class. Some private schools do a great job explaining this but some do not. Again if your school doesn’t speak with colleges and if it is true that colleges will not take calls then how is this difference explained? I looked on our school profile and it does’t address this disparity. The only people
happy are parents who figured out this particular system and have the kids take just enough humanities rigor to be able to say high rigor in transcript. Student may not even take math senior year or dropped language. Student will have a higher GPA than poor kid who took BC calc and top physics. This is happening a lot more than one would think or expect. If you do not care about college than okay but most people care and are upset when they realize what is going on.[/quote]

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