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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1500+ SAT all As at highly regarded private (school doesn’t offer AP classes but DC took 4 and got 4s and 5s). Varsity sport, leadership in ECs. Legacy - rejected. Waitlisted at all others.  No acceptances today. Brutal. [/quote]

If your kid is wsitlisted at all the other schools they applied to, it seems they weren't realistic.[/quote]

How can the private be highly regarded but offer no APs?? Something doesn’t make sense here.[/quote]

Some of the DC/MD privates do not offer "AP"courses but have created their own curricula to teach the same materials that should be covered by the AP Exams.  Because the privates do not pay the College Board for the materials, they cannot call the course "AP ___".  As students are not required to take College Board approved/trademarked AP courses to take the AP exams, it's commons for students at the privates to take the AP exams, and they usually do much better on the exams than the public school students who were taught using the official Colllege Board materials.  I was told that St. Albans' AP AB Cal exam average is a 4.5; the average is a 2 at  one of the MCPS' W schools.

In fact, St. Albans and Landon got into a p--- match with the College Board a couple of years ago.  College Board threatened to sue the DC/MD privates because it couldn't believe that the privates' students were doing so well on the exams without having stolen College Board's materials. Essentially, College Board wanted money.[/quote]

At Whitman (MCPS), 53 students earned 5s on the BC calc exam. Four earned a score of 2. Maybe the privates were taking AB?[/quote]

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