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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like the SAT, the AP tests have been completely watered down and are a lot less meaningful than they used to be. This is why private schools have stopped bothering.

I am so tired of hearing of these striver kids from Enloe or TJ or wherever who are takin 20 APs including 4 as a freshmen then end up getting rejected by Ivies and ending up at meh state schools.

I personally think they do more harm than good. I understand they are unfortunately a necessary evil to show a student is taking the most rigorous courses, but they are a waste of time. I would rather my kid take the core courses at the university they are going to than placing into super advanced classes with upperclassmen. Unless the goal is to graduate early, being in advanced classes doesn't get you anywhere.

But I digress...[/quote]

Many of these “striver” kids (as you call them) are brilliant students whose parents immigrants and don’t have enormous financial resources.  There is no question they are more academically gifted than most private school kids.  I am sure if they were students at your school, they would be top of the class there as well.

I know many of these kids and I am floored by their resilience, insights, knowledge, and sense of humor.  I truly think your remarks are insulting and it breaks my heart that people disparage them so easily. You only see that they’re Asian or Indian and so you dismiss them. You have to respect your competition. [/quote]

And many of them think they are so smart and are playing the game perfectly only to realize that colleges don’t generally care much if you have taken 10 vs 20 APs. They live in their little non-assimilated bubble and hear the occasional success story of the kid with 20 APs who got into MIT and think that will be them and that all of the “losers” who are only taking 5 APs and are “wasting their time” on mainstream XCs, socializing, etc are inferior and won’t get it. But guess who gets in?

They would be better off at a regular hs taking a difficult but normal load and watching tv, playing pickup football in the park and having a job serving ice cream.[/quote]

On-assimilation bubble?

Is that similar to the private school bubble?[/quote]

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