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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And to just spell out the info re:APs in the last two links, you can either show that you are in the top 10% of the class OR submit 2 or more APs with a score of 3 or better. That’s after getting a qualifying PSAT score. So even folks choosing to use APs have a low bar to clear - colleges very likely do not take away a message that a student “took a lot of APs and did really well on them” from this designation. [/quote]

Yes, the criteria here are set so that although facially neutral the award will be essentially meaningless for students at affluent suburban high schools, where a majority of the class will qualify based on AP scores, but significant at under-resourced schools where it’s rare to even take two APs by 10th grade. [/quote]
And that’s fine, but no one has to have taken “a lot” of APs or done particularly well on them, so I doubt colleges would assume they had. It’s not a way to let colleges know about APs without actually listing APs, as a pp suggested. [/quote]

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