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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought Arlington Tech is to become a dual enrollment program with NoVA community college for credit classes. More desirable to my DS to earn college credit rather than the empty promise of AP classes.[/quote]

This again aligns with a vocational focus. You take AP because of the rigor needed to pass the AP exam and what that represents as to your college readiness, not to get college credits to save money on tuition (because at elite colleges you don’t pay per credit hour, you just pay annual tuition and take even more advanced classes if you AP out)[/quote]

You clearly don't understand the AT program at all and your argument is illogical.  You get college credit for dual enrollment courses because they are college level courses, just like AP classes are supposedly college level classes.
AT students have the advantage of access to the CTE classes.
It is a selective program - you have to have taken Alg2 before you begin or no later than before you start 10th and there are limited seats.  The Alg2 requirement already makes it more "selective" than HB which has no academic requirement, just limited seats.  With AT, you have an expected level of academic rigor throughout the program AND it's limited seats. They have an advantage when they graduate because every student is required to complete a real internship their senior year.  It's not like they are not applying to, and being accepted into, high quality colleges and universities.  And when you leave AT with college credits, just like when passing AP exams, you get to take other (more advanced, if you like) classes when you get to college.[/quote]

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