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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP—the number of APs (with good grades and test scores) is important relative to peers because colleges evaluate applicants vs kids from their school. I assume that’s why OP asked…

I agree that we should be asking about the need for APs freshman year, the AP “arms race” in general, kids taking AP classes to get the GPA bump while still having the option to skip the exam, and overall quality of instruction. These speak more to the quality vs quantity and are outside the scope of OP’s question. [/quote]

Take that up with University Admissions.  When your graduating class is 500-600 students in a district of 10,000-12,000 seniors, and your state flagship gets 60K applications for 5Kish spots, families are going to do whatever to get ahead.  APs are one of those ways. [/quote]

1K ish spots for the local district. [/quote]

I’m the PP who mentioned the AP arms race—I totally agree that this is an issue for university admissions. UMD has always been competitive but I don’t recall (maybe I’ve forgotten?) the AP hysteria when I was in HS amongst kids who wanted UMD. [/quote]

Great, allow us to disabuse you of the idea that college admissions today is anything like it was when you were a HS kid.

[url]https://irpa.umd.edu/CampusCounts/Admissions/apps_ug.pdf[/url][/quote]

No need for snark. I didn’t mean to imply UMD wasn’t competitive or that kids don’t need to take APs to be in range for admissions these days. I was asking when it became necessary to take a ton of APs for admissions to very good and top schools.

Btw—This is a very helpful document so thank you for sharing. [/quote]

How can the average admitted student GPA be 4.45? They get some weighting off AP classes for sure but so much that the average kid is at 4.45? [/quote]

A 4.45 today is like a 3.2 from 30 years ago.[/quote]

you are screwed if you have 4.45 really - over 50% students at mcps have 4.5.[/quote]

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