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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not just the DC area top privates that are getting rid of AP courses.  Andover, Exeter, and other well-known privates got rid of them a few years ago. And it isn't like kids are all taking AP tests on the side.  AP courses aren't offered, and no one is encouraged to take AP tests.  Particularly ironic, given that Andover faculty helped design the original AP program fifty-plus years ago.

Kind of like how Bill Gates funded the campaign that resulted in the scourge of constant testing and retesting in public schools, but then has his own kids in a nice progressive private school in Seattle that basically doesn't test at all.  By the way, the private school where he and his kids went also doesn't have any AP classes.  I'm guessing he and Melinda have a good laugh at how they have screwed up the education of tens of millions of public school students.

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Are there different tracks at privates? Are there kids taking the hardest courses while others self-select a less ambitious program? And if so is there a correlation between those choices and where they gain admission?[/quote]

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