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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We've been trying to figure this out also. We talked to a college counselor about it and have landed on 6 APs. The theory is because this is work completed outside of school, we shouldn't need as many as high-stats public school kids (10-14) but want to cover core courses - math, english, science, etc.

AP classes/scores will *maybe* help with US college apps, but are necessary for UK uni apps.

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+1 college counselors have said that without the subject matter SATs and the test optional SAT/ACT, AP exams are the missing piece that many colleges are comfortable using to compare kids across schools after they have whittled down the within-school comparison. It just isn't entirely true that your are never compared to kids from other schools. [/quote]

Most kids don’t submit ap scores and a lot of public school kids do not even take the exams.[/quote]

This is not true. Everyone who has a score above a 3 submits it. And the public schools are filled with kids with 4s and 5s because the curriculum matches the test. APs exams are free to public school kids and are a part of the regular school day, so they ALL take them. At DC private they have APs and the kids are REQUIRED to take them if they are taking the course.[/quote]

No it’s not true.  Kids with 5 aps often only take the tests for subset.  Why?  Because it costs money to take each test.  And most kids don’t submit their AP scores, even if they do well.  There are multiple threads in the college forum where this is discussed.

If private school kids are at any disadvantage with admissions (and they don’t seem to be at our private), it’s because of grade deflation not lack of APs.[/quote]

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