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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell Friends phased out AP courses in 2023. They are moving to the Andover model of making their own version of college-level courses.

No one will penalize the Sidwell kids I'm sure for not having APs. As long as they take the hardest classes available to them.[/quote]

I hope schools doing this still consider teaching AP content to make way for students to sit for AP tests anyway. That's the most equitable path for the (few) students at these schools who are receiving financial aid: when they go to college, if they go to a state school that accepts AP credit, they can come in as a Sophomore and end up spending less at the end of the day. APs are a financial boost for bright, under-resourced kids, and private schools that claim to serve these kids should keep this in mind as a holistic approach to launching them. [/quote]

The privates stopped offering APs so they could modify the curriculum, set their own pace and give their own tests which makes sense.  However, you are so right that for public universities in particular, AP credits can be a great way to shave off a little time in college thus potentially reducing the price, getting better course sign up times, being able to take courses earlier, etc.. I have kids at two different DMV privates without APs and one school is much more AP friendly than the other.

One school offers AP testing on site at school and covers most of the cost (even though they don't offer the classes) and teachers specifically ask if anyone is taking APs so they can suggest areas students can self-study for the tests. The Honors Spanish teacher even says the course already prepares students for the AP. Many of the text books were AP texts as well. Since the tests are at school, many students take them and teachers seem to schedule their curriculum around kids missing classes for the tests.

The other school doesn't offer AP tests at school so families have to pay ~$100/test to take them at a public or Basis. Which is expensive and a hassle (although I will note, the local MoCo publics are very well set up to host the tests and are helpful to the private school kids taking tests there. They even provide chromebooks for the tests as students can't use a Macbook, etc). The individual teachers at this school are supportive of kids taking tests and if asked will suggest content students can additionally study for the test. Since tests aren't offered at school, the number of students taking them is low. so if students take them, they miss class/tests, etc. This school is normally so supportive/sensitive to people's finances so it seems so out of character that they don't at least offer the most common AP tests.[/quote]

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