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[quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on the school. At some private schools, including the top schools in the area, the number of APs is very low while at others and at top public schools, the competitive applicants have APs in the two digit range. The reason is that you have a much wider range of student abilities in public schools (therefore separation into regular, honors, AP) and that many AP curricula simply are not very good, so private schools don't offer them, and finally, that even regular classes at private schools are rigorous enough to prepare students for the AP exam. (They just aren't designated AP, so that not everybody has to take the exam.) For example, at NCS, you take regular US History but are expected to take the AP exam if you have a certain grade. If your grade is not good enough, you won't take the AP exam, and NCS's AP exam results aren't dragged down.[/quote]
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