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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fact that no 9th grader is permitted to take a single AP class isn’t a great sign when public and private schools nearby allow this. We know BASIS 8th graders who scored 5s on AP World History after taking the class in school.  They then took a couple APs in 9th grade.[/quote]

If the point of AP classes is to expose students to college-level content (and potentially allow them to test out of college level classes), why is it important that 9th graders take AP classes? Why is it good that 8th graders are taking AP classes?[/quote]

Partly because AP exams are only given in May, which is ridiculous.  [b]What also sucks is that if your UMC white of Asian kid applies to a highly competitive college without at least 4 or 5 AP scores of 4 or 5, their application may not even be read in full.[/b]  So it's not a bad idea to spread AP testing out, one or two exams in the spring of 9th grade, several more in 10th, several more in 11, before college applications go in.

One big reason that Cambridge International exam are slowly but surely gaining traction in this country with applicants to highly competitive colleges is because Cambridge tests in both May and November.  They also test on several levels, GSCE (traditionally 10th grade), AS-Level (half an A-level), and A-Level (at least a year past AP). Elite colleges are accustomed to seeing Cambridge exam results from foreign students.

We're going with with 6 AP exam scores of 4 or 5 and several Cambridge scores for our eldest as of right now.
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There's no evidence of this. None. People on here will say anything to justify their crazy competitive delusions. [/quote]

You doubt that?  Have you applied to college lately?![/quote]

Do I doubt that white and Asian kids who don’t submit at least 4-5 AP scores of 4 or 5 won’t have their applications read at highly selective colleges? Yes. I doubt it because it’s disproven by actual admissions of actual kids this year.[/quote]

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