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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]You should know that AP classes are not what they once were.  That is why kids are suddenly taking APs with out taking the HS level class first.[/b] I took me a while to figure this out.  They may  provide more challenge then the HS level course but are not college level.  At our (non-W) HS the majority of kids take AP GOV, AP Lang etc.  It is not the top select kids only with approval as it was in my day...[/quote]

Yeah this is such BS but everyone plays the game to inflate the GPA for college admissions and [b]remain competive in the class rank race again for college admissions[/b]
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Not sure what AP classes "once were" in your experience, but I went to high school in the early 1980's, and it wasn't much different from my kids' high school experience today.  You took AP classes [i]instead [/i]of the standard or advanced class in the same subject, not in addition to.  I don't think AP courses were ever really "college level."

Also, most high schools these days don't do class rankings, and if they do, the colleges don't use them anyway.[/quote]

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