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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far, top 3/5/7 privates in metro DC who stopped labeling courses “AP” but which kept offering the exams to their own students continue to have similarly good admissions outcomes to universities - including to T20, T50, and top publics, including to the UC system.  Any school always has had a little admissions variation from year to year, depending on strengths of a particular cohort of students, but there seems to be no obvious downward trend across the top schools.

Each person ought to do what is best for their own DC.  Different kids are different.  Different families have different priorities.  Different schools (whether public or private) are different.

If folks want courses labeled AP because they believe that is best for their family/ children, then by all means pick schools which offer those.[/quote]

Sure, but we can also discuss the reasoning and the implications of these decisions for people that might consider these schools for their children.

The schools give this reasoning of having the freedom and flexibility on how to organize the class, and not to teach to the test, but in the end offer said test to their students. That seems kind of conflicting doesn’t it? On one hand they don’t teach to the test, but offer the test and use the student results as proof the course is still rigorous. Add to this the legal finding that the schools colluded to remove the AP classes and it all seems shady.

In the test optional era, colleges will look for ways to differentiate students and AP exams are one way to do this. I’d genuinely be interested to know how you determined that the outcomes are similar to past years.

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