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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe there is no advantage for admissions but there is an advantage in terms of graduating early, picking up a minor, repeating a class without delaying graduation...

[b]I also think in the world of no SATs and grade inflation, submitting lots of 5s in challenging APs is one of the few things left to show you can handle challenge[/b].[/quote]

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+1 It is one of the few nationally applied tests to determine a student's standing among peers. 5s cannot hurt an applicant.
Many competitive colleges for a long time have not accepted APs to get out of credits, but they can sometimes get you out of intro level courses. Some colleges have special courses for kids who have received 5s (I was admitted into a special history seminar at Swarthmore that was open only to first-year students who received a 5 on an AP history exam). 
Some colleges do let you get out of classes with 4s or 5s--this can be a huge financial benefit for kids who may be able to graduate a semester or even a year early. That is a massive savings--I don't understand why GDS doesn't acknowledge this. There are kids at GDS who are on significant financial aid.
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+1 to all of this [/quote]

Apparently, GDS could not care less about the kids for whom taking and doing well on these tests would be a financial benefit.  Telling.
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Longtime GDS parent here. It's all GDS virtue signaling as follows:
-Standardized tests = bad
-objective measures = bad
-GDS love to preach equity and yet when something around economic and not skin color equity comes up, stupidity sets in.

GDS thinks equality of outcome is the proper frame and not equality of opportunity

BTW - pretty telling Ivy league testing data on SAT/ACT - 70+% of top Ivy freshmen submitted test scores. Those who didn't...athletes and hooked

What GDS is doing is leaning into hooked kids. That's all.

AP *testing* is about placement which is about ECONOMIC equity for kids who want to not take Physics 101 and instead jump to 201. And by dropping AP testing, GDS takes this choice away. Instead 100+ parents now need to find schools to take these tests for their kids.

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