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The colleges don't get money from the testing regime. And while a college may know many schools in a given area they are not familiar with all of them.  How well do you think a school like Cal Berkeley or UCLA knows Holton or Stone Ridge?  The tests help with comparisons.[/quote]

The point is, why can't Cal Berkely compare Holton to Stone Ridge based on the AP scores, if these are already available?  Why can't Cal Berkeley say, "If you are already submitting two AP test results, then we will use these in place of two SAT subject test results. But if you don't have AP results, then you need the SAT subject tests." And as another PP said, the AP test in a subject like World History is probably a lot harder than the SAT World History subject test anyway.  Colleges already do this for the ACT -- both Vassar and Columbia say "if you are taking the ACT with writing, then you don't need the SAT subject tests."

To the person who keeps talking about Americans and tests, no, I am not worried that my little snowflake can't handle another test - snowflake will have done 9 APs by the time snowflake graduates. In addition to the PSAT and SAT, and possibly the ACT.

It just seems wasteful. These are extra hoops that cost more money and time but provide no additional information that isn't already available if a kid has taken AP tests.
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