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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP classes have become a joke.  AP Pre-Calculus?  What's next?  AP Pre-Algebra?  It's a way of labeling classes as advanced regardless of whether they are.  Private schools around the country are dropping APS.[/quote]

Such as?[/quote]

You want to know which schools have dropped them?

Andover hasn’t really offered humanities and social sciences AP courses for a few years.

Exeter is the same way, as is Horace Mann. Riverdale Country Day hasn’t offered AP courses since 2008.

Fieldston dropped them in 2002.

I’m sure there are more, but those are some notable examples among elite private schools.
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All that said, probably 95%+ of all private schools still offer APs.  I get that a very small %age of the most elite private schools do not.[/quote]

The point is that more and more of the best ones don’t. They clearly don’t respect the AP curriculum. [/quote]

There's a huge difference between not offering AP courses, and not offering AP testing. Which elite schools do not offer AP testing on site for their students?[/quote]

Most that don’t offer the courses also don’t offer testing on site.[/quote]

Then how do they support their students who want to take the exams, especially the less wealthy ones?
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Andover offers AP testing
https://www.andover.edu/files/2022APFallReg.pdf

Exeter offers AP testing
https://www.exeter.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Dec_13_2022-23_PEA_Profile.pdf

etc etc

GDS is unique in NOT offering testing. So freakin' stupid[/quote]

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