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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys are trying really hard to make APs seem meaningless. Just admit the school has a problem that can be easily fixed. YOU don't have to have your kid take them, but that doesn't mean no one should have this option.[/quote]

Again, no one is saying kids shouldn't take the exams. [b]Schools such as GDS still allow their students to sit for the exams.[/b] The issue is whether or not the schools should designate these classes as AP, which requires more bureaucratic red tape than most people think.[/quote]
This is a bit misleading. Any student can sign up to take an AP exam. The big problem with GDS is that it has decided not to administer any AP exams, so dozens of GDS students are scrambling on their own to find a public or private HS that has extra spaces to allow a GDS student to take AP exams alongside their own students. Most HSs do not have the space for this. It's a poor policy decision. I get the reasons for designing a course that deviates from the AP curriculum, but practically speaking a good number of GDS students want to take AP exams because they are applying to colleges outside the US, because they want advanced standing, and because high AP scores can corroborate evidence of high academic achievement--which is hard to do otherwise since GDS [b]no longer publishes average SAT scores[/b], and has [b]never published average GPAs or class ranks[/b].[/quote]

That's exactly the purpose.  No average SAT, GPA, ranking, no AP classes, not admin AP test so the connected families and big donors kids can get ahead.  [/quote]

Do you really think this is why?  Wouldn't it be more for equity (URM) purposes?  (some of whom of course are the connected/donor families but many whom are not). [/quote]

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