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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is a different world.  Far more difficult to get into college or university than it was in late 70s/early 80s.  Back then the highest you could go was a 4.0 and no AP classes and there was one valedictorian.  Now you can have a GPA up to 6.0; carry 15 AP classes and public high schools have 60 valedictorians (don't ask me why - I have no idea - I can only assume its everyone over a 4.0 GPA).  And your kids are competing against a huge international market wanting to send their kids to American schools and very happy to pay full freight.  And the colleges, in turn, want to boast diversity diversity!  It's a much different world.[/quote]

I took two AP classes a year in HS in the late 70's and it was a public school. The AP classes had been there for years before me.[/quote]

Different poster here. Was this in a big city? We didn't have APs in the late 70's at my public school in a mid-sized town with several colleges. [/quote]

No, Cheltenham High School, in a middle class suburb of Philadelphia.  Not a magnet school ( THAT did not exist then).Average home price $30,000. Average parent: a professor at Temple, Drexel or Penn. 3 elementary schools feeding into two middle schools, feeding into one HS. Five former grads  with Nobel Prize in Science or Math. [/quote]

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