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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son at Einstein took AP US as a freshman. He got a 2 on the AP but that was during COVID and it was a weird online home test shortened to forty five minutes. He took AP govt the next year and got a 5[/quote]

Can he retake the AP exam? Wondering how this works as I have a child headed to Einstein.[/quote]

I don’t know, actually. Didn’t think about that.

My main advice to Einstein parents is, unless your kid really wants to take IB, go with APs. If you want to hear my reasoning let me know and I will elaborate.[/quote]

Yes, I would appreciate that if you don’t mind elaborating. [/quote]

First, he will not get credit for any of the IP exams he took. He took six IB exams and got between fives and sevens on them and his college is not giving him credit. His college does give credit for AP. We were making the decision about whether to take IB courses during virtual learning and this was not explained to us. We only heard from Einstein that colleges would view AP and IB equally.

Second - and for some kids this may be a good thing - IB is more intense and stressful than AP. Of course that depends somewhat on the course and teacher, but it’s mostly true. I do not think his ninth and tenth grade education prepared him adequately for the IB courses. He barely wrote at all leading up to eleventh grade and then he was thrown into writing a lot. He wasn’t prepared for that. Some kids might want that challenge. For him, it increased his already existing anxiety. So it was a bad fit.[/quote]

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