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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Full pay, 35 ACT, 4.6 wgpa, 8 APs with 5s, 4 more APs this senior year, varsity athlete including captain, ECs with leadership,  deferred at U of MI

In at some lower tier schools with generous merit aid [/quote]

I'm not sure why people think APs help? I'm a professor and at my (very good) university they have really started frowning on APs, first because they don't believe it really indicates student quality or prepares them well for college, and second because it steals tuition revenue away from our lower level, more profitable classes.[/quote]

If you are a professor you probably know that admissions officers at highly competitive universities want students that have taken the most challenging schedule possible, which at most HS are AP classes.

Their value beyond admissions is debatable, of course.[/quote]

Right-- my child also took AP classes and tests and provided that info to U of MI for purposes of admission, not to knock down the cost of college. They were the most challenging level classes available.

Aren't those the classes kids are supposed to take to get into these competitive schools?  I'm supposed to tell my kid-- "no, don't take AP classes-- colleges hate to take kids that take AP classes because it is lost revenue and doesn't really, really prepare you for college, only sort of."  Damned if you do, damned if you don't right?  If colleges don't want to give credit for AP classes, why don't they just stop doing that?

(BTW-- He is also deferred-- similar stats and varsity athlete captain.  Hope both our kids get in!)[/quote]

UMich is notorious for rejecting or waitlisting high stat students. It knows it can’t compete with ivies or more selective public unis.

So, read between the lines. While I am at it, if there are profs who don’t like APs, it has to do with their job security. Students with AP US History, for example, will not repeat US History in college. Some may never take another history course. Now you know why profs don’t like AP courses. APs make them them expendable. [/quote]
Which publix schools are more selective than Umich?[/quote]

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