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[quote=Anonymous], the various articles seem to suggest that AP courses involve a huge amount of material, so they are hard. "Regular" schools have jumped on AP to look better, but impose no standards on who can take AP, resulting in students not suited to the courses becoming stressed and doing poorly on the exams. Teachers can't manipulate the coursework to fit their own agenda and there are no participation trophies, just objective comparison between students.  The tests drain resources from more average students, and in isolation (as opposed to being viewed as part of a coherent and comprehensive program) might not have all the depth a specialized "selected topics" class would.  Elite schools want to move away from AP, because if everybody has AP, what's the point of going to the elite school, and they need a new competitive distinction. Some colleges see an increasing number of kids coming in able to finish in three years and are concerned about losing that fourth year of income.

Sounds like AP is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, identifying the highest performing students and standardizing subject matter so performance can be compared across schools.  That threatens certain social engineering efforts and vested interests.[/quote]

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