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At my (non-boarding) private in a different metro, there never were any courses labeled AP.   Curricula for courses were NOT centered on whatever the College Board said, but they absolutely were challenging and rigorous.  Each year, the school enabled any student to sit the AP exam for any course s/he took that year.  No special AP tutoring or such was used (or even needed).  Results were uniformly 3/4/5, and mostly 4/5, across a wide range of subjects.  College admissions and matriculations were as good (or better than) any school in the DMV to HYPS and other top-30s.

This ENTIRE thread is merely a tempest in a teapot.  Good private schools will have good AP results even if their courses are not labeled AP.  I applaud the schools who are phasing out classes labeled AP.  (With luck, my own DC will graduate from one of these top local schools when they are a bit older.)

The goals of the AP program are, in my view, to (a) raise revenue for the College Board, (b) help smaller/poorer public schools with detailed guidance on college-preparatory curricula, and (c) help smaller/poorer public schools offer differentiated college-preparatory tracks/classes.  None of those are applicable to a good quality private school.  College admissions folks DO care about the AP scores, but if coming from a good quality private, they do not care if the course is LABELED “AP”.

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