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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College admissions evaluate your DC based on how they stack up to other kids at your school based on information the college counselors provide about the curriculum at the school. At DC’s school, no one is allowed to take AP anything freshman year, they must take a religion course every year (which eats up a spot that might get filled with an AP class elsewhere), and you cannot take an AP STEM class without having first taken the regular/honors version. Colleges know this about DC’s school so they read their transcript with those parameters in mind. Additionally, it’s important to remember that many top schools do not take AP scores as credits toward a major. The best you can hope for is that you could avoid a large intro level course.

And ask yourself if you think your kid who took AP whatever as a freshman in HS has retained the material well enough to apply that in a higher level class at university four years later. A lot of those APs are simply about inflating grades, egos, and not about truly higher level education. [b]Some schools don’t even require students to take the AP test. [/b]

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Why wouldn’t they require them to take the AP test? That is ridiculous. [/quote]

My kid's HS doesn't require kids to take the AP exam but it is strongly encouraged - you don't get the gpa bump if you don't take the test, so that's incentive enough for most kids.

However, since families pay nearly $100 per test, I understand why some may make a judicious decision to skip a few.[/quote]

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