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[quote=Anonymous]My kids go to a private HS with no AP classes, but they do administer many of the tests in May.

Because there are no AP classes, the parents Facebook page lights up every year: should my kids take these? what AP tests align with coursework taught? Pros and cons.

We also have a (super informative) senior parent to junior parent info night about college stuff. I've been through this twice.  One of the standard questions to the panel, did your kid take APs, how many, did it matter. And the responses are pretty much 1/3 for each of these:

- Kid never took an AP test, we don't think it mattered one bit in apps. Glad we didn't waste time on that

- Kid took one AP test each year for classes that we heard line up. We were delighted/disappointed that college kid is going to this fall is accepting/not accepting.  Wish we skipped/took more. But eh.

- Kid took no/one AP test and by fall of senior year realized they were interested in UK, School in Europe. And now kid has conditional acceptance in hand, but will have to take 3-5 AP tests in May of his senior year and get a 5 on each one. Super high stakes.  OR Kid took no/one AP test and now realize school will take APs and having 4 of these would save us 50k or more (or kid doesn't want to take these 101 classes) and .. also now kid is also taking 4 tests for classes he took a year ago and they're pretty high stakes. Both parents: wish school had been clear about this earlier on.

So IMO, GDS is appealing to schools in category 1.  Who are applying to US school and aren't too concerned with possibly getting a semester of credits, credited.

What a pain for people who end up in last group.

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