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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t most European countries have a highly centralized, national high school curriculum so the differences in grading and courses is largely eliminated? It seems a necessary predicate to that kind of admissions system [/quote]US has APs.[/quote] Not nearly the same thing. [/quote] +1.we regularly hear that applicants to elite schools must have 4 years of all core subjects, including math science and foreign language even if the student has no intention of majoring in said subject. That doesn’t occur in the European system as much because by age 16, you start specializing much more [/quote] US students specialize as well, via AP classes. They just take a wider range of classes on top of that.[/quote] AP exam score aren't usually part of the college application in the US, unlike in Europe.[/quote]Then maybe they should be[/quote]
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