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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why these schools made such a fuss about AP exams in the first place.
I am a college professor and the AP curriculum in certain subjects (the ones I’m familiar with) is quite good.
Why complicate the landscape so much? I guess it is less stress on the teachers this way.

[/quote] They did it so they could artificially distinguish themselves from the top area public high schools.  Why pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for private when the same curriculum is offered by public school?  Except they were too chicken sh*t to go it alone and didn’t dare pull the plug on APs without making sure all of them would go along with it.  [/quote]

Yes, and it's not working that well, because in the absence of a high school national exam like the Baccalaureat or Abitur, standardized subject exams and tests are actually quite useful for college admissions.
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Really quite the opposite.  Any standardized result made it harder to manipulate admissions based on virtue signaling.  Admins don’t want any honest metric that undermines them.[/quote]

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