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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For a selective private school, the lack of APs will not matter at all. In fact, admissions officers know that selective private schools often have much harder curriculums than public schools with AP. From my own personal perspective, my kids just switched from an elite private school to a very well regarded public due to a family move and are taking all AP classes, and the AP classes are infinitely easier than what they were taking in the private school.[/quote]

Really, AP classes are “infinitely easier”? Please, enough with the exaggerations. Pick a class and explain how the AP version is infinitely easier. I guarantee that for STEM classes like Calculus BC the difference is “infinitely small” lol. Everyone can look at the private school class catalogues and see that the syllabus content is the same.

If the private high school is well known then there’s some assessment about rigor. At less known privates students still need to demonstrate rigor or take the risk of being rejected and AP is one of the ways to show it. It’s the same with test optional, it’s risky to apply without scores.[/quote]

All I know is my northwestern kid (private well-known HS) has a 4.0 for her first quarter.

Many of her new friends from public schools cannot say that. She had a writing heavy first quarter and found it to be relatively easy giving them the rigorous writing demands of her high school. So far college is much easier than high school.[/quote]

What an empty brag. You have no idea what AP classes her new friends took in high school, and it’s tacky to shade when you haven’t even met them. From the writing heavy quarter, it sounds like she’s in a humanities major that often lack the weed out classes in stem majors. AP English and History courses are plenty of writing preparation. Also, even if the college doesn’t give AP credit, the exam scores can be used to satisfy prerequisites so the students will skip low level general education classes and dive straight into harder classes. The advanced non AP classes at privates won’t count for anything. To some students having the flexibity to take high level classes matters.

Finding college easy is not the flex people assume it is. It just means she didn’t choose challenging courses, or ended up at an underwhelming college.[/quote]

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