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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You call it “gaming the system” but making sure a student gets a 3 on one AP exam by senior year should be the minimum goal of all schools.  This is not a high bar.  It’s sad that most schools don’t make “college readiness” more of a priority.  [/quote]

You’re not understanding what they’re doing. They’re literally preventing anyone who cannot score a 3 on an AP test to advance to 12th grade. US News looks at the number of seniors who have taken and passed (with a 3) an AP test. There is no way for a kid to make it to 12th at BASIS if they haven’t done that.

Other schools have to keep the kids who are not academically inclined enough to get a 3 on an AP test. [/quote]

I’m a happy basis parent who understands the problems of the school.  Please get it right, there aren’t 9th graders who can’t get a 3 on an AP.  Most basis eighth graders have at least one.  By twelfth they are done.   [/quote]

Preventing the kids you won’t even try to educate from reaching 9th grade is an extremely reliable way of preventing them from reaching 12th grade, especially if you don’t admit after 5th grade.[/quote]

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