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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend  is  a TA in a very reputable college. One of her students is a top BASIS DC graduate with very high recommendations.  She is totally confused  as the young man who has passed multiple APs with "5" s is struggling in a subject which he supposedly excelled in. [/quote]

Your friend should lose her position for discussing a student’s performance with you. University faculty and staff can’t even discuss a student’s performance with the students’s parent without the student’s explicit permission.

She is in violation of federal laws and her university’s policies. It reflects far more poorly on her than on the supposedly struggling student.

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NP here.
Maybe this is one of the reason why Walls is requesting for the APs to be retaken. Walls has a good reputation and a student who has mastered a college-level subject by scoring a "5" should not be struggling in the same subject. Isn't this why colleges give credit for AP courses? [/quote]

I'm the PP whose kid chose to stay at BASIS for high school for this reason.

Walls just doesn't want to juggle its schedules. They talked about how AP World History is a core class, everyone should have the same experience. They told my DS that retaking the class and exam shouldn't be a big deal since he'd get an easy A/5.

As for the gossipy TA's anecdote, surely anyone who is at a university knows that taking AP classes and passing an AP exam is not a guarantee of success in college classes, regardless of where one attended high school.

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