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[quote=Anonymous]If you are a GDS parent and your kid wants to sit for an AP test in May, time is running out. High schools need to submit to college board by November 15 to order the tests. This is the crunch time. moco publics have already put in their order.

Call the college office ant Gds now and insist they help you find a high school that can accommodate your child. Be pushy and insistent. Call the head of the high school or head of school if this gets you nowhere.

I know a parent who did this and reluctantly got a name of a public school in Moco who took non student county residents. It took arm twisting, pushing, everything. Not the way you want to be talking to the person who has to write a letter for your kid in a year or two.

It’s a freakin cluster and entirely created by Emily who runs that college office. There is no sane reason for them to drop testing. My kid tells me several of the veteran teachers are complaining about it too.

I think 20 percent of GDS kids applied to a non US college last year and around 5 are overseas now from last years senior class.

All / most of those schools require APs. The UK schools require 3-5 AP tests and you really don’t want to take these senior year. So this is really impacting 10th and 11th graders and some parents aren’t even aware yet.

Even putting aside course credit and advancing past 101 classes as freshman, this decision harms a much bigger portion of the gds applicant pool than they are admitting. [/quote]

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