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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Bethesda schools in particular you'll find that parents and top students actually have found a way around being "dragged down". They take multiple AP classes early, they take more than one "difficult" language to AP, or CC classes outside of school and really over-do the SSL hours in obsessive ways. All to stand out when it comes to college applications.[/quote]

SSL hours are easy to get depending on the school.  The difference is those kids have the access to ap classes unlike kids at other schools.  [/quote]

What high schools don't offer AP classes? All of them claim to.[/quote]

They all offer AP classes. The eight IB schools tend to have fewer APs because they also have IBs.[/quote]

So was the pp complaining about the IB program?[/quote]

There is one PP, who wanted her kid to go to Wheaton, but he didn't get in and is now at Einstein, and she writes about the "inequity" of being provided IB instead of AP on every thread.[/quote]

IB is not equal to AP.  The lack of AP offerings at Einstein is terrible.[/quote]

Einstein offers 19 AP courses in addition to the 38 IB courses.[/quote]

No, they don't offer that many and there are zero science AP's, no music AP and not other things either.[/quote]

Based on the discussions on this forum, I feel the numbers shared on the office of accountability for archived information is significantly inaccurate, potentially significantly over-estimating the real course offering. They can offer a course every few years and call it an offering. I remember for the published test results, Einstein has only about 6 IB test data inputs there, so what about the other 32 IB courses? [/quote]

They are listed here: [url]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ahQmKa3acSRnJPnTI4UnQ23eQj5GXYUFaBQio0PtgfI/edit?tab=t.0[/url][/quote]

You don't get what I meant.[b] I'm saying a lot of these AP and IB courses can be offered, but then they couldn't due to lack of student enrollment, or lack of appropriate teacher, or other reasons. [/b]

For example, IB math has a lower-level course called "IB math studies" and a higher level called "IB math". For Einstein, there is no IB math test score for year 2022 and 2023, no IB physics score for 2020 and 2022, no IB biology score for 2021 and 2024. That means these courses were actually not offered, or no one from these classes registered for IB testing. But on the face value, things look great. You get a ton of options.[/quote]

Yes, that is in fact how it works at every school. If there aren't enough students requesting a class, it isn't offered.[/quote]

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