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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zero AP courses for my private school kid.  Imo, the biggest perk and privlege of private school is the absence of the toxic expectation to take max AP courses. Many AP course curriculums are restrictive, fast paced and dont allow deeper dive into complex topics. Kids often have multiple test retakes which inflates grades.  I don't think AP is a reasonable benchmark. We know so many public kids with 4.0 gpa  and all AP. Lots of grade inflation so kids kill themselves to get top grades, but when so many have perfect grades, their value is diluted. All AP does not guarantee t20 college. The only AP curriculum  winner is College Board that makes lots of $$$ selling the program and tests. Without AP mania, my kid took many advanced classes but not in every discipline. They were very focused and excelled in their academic area of interest both in school coursework and with their EC. My kid did very well with college acceptances, but top grades and rigor are only 1 part of the 'holistic' admission process these days[/quote]

Same for mine. NYC privates don't do AP. Child was accepted to a top NYC SHSAT school and we opted for private. We are very privileged to have the means to pay for it. But I am so glad we did not deal with this.

The fact that kids are taking multiple APs as freshmen and getting straight fives says to me that they have been greatly diluted from the 90s when I took them. Are colleges really impressed by this? At some point I feel like it is gluttony.[/quote]

Yet, you both expect them to be impressed by your fancy private school. Most of these posters don't have that privilege, OK? They have a different set of rules to follow.[/quote]

Not the PP, but I don't think they were saying schools should be impressed by their private, but rather that they spared their child the AP rat race. My kid attends private as well and while there are APs, they are only offered in jr. and sr. year. It takes a lot of pressure off and a kid can take half the number of APs than a public school kid and be equally or more competitive.[/quote]

APs are a standardized way to compare kids from diverse settings studying core subjects with grading that is independent of any school.   Whenever I hear private school parents say their schools are too good for APs, I interpret this as their kid couldn't hack it  at a public magnet or other school with rigorous coursework.  But again, with the full-pay, and legacy benefits that many private school kids have, it all gets jumbled up anyway when you try to look at the "success" of their admissions.[/quote]

I don't think they are saying they are too good lol. Maybe some couldn't hack it. I know mine wouldn't have had as rich a high school experience if she were craming for 12 APs. I am grateful we could afford a school without that level of pressure (honors instead of APs) and has stellar college matriculations with anywhere from 15-25 percent going to top 20 schools. My oldest took 6 APs and ended up at a top 20.[/quote]i think the lesson here is that the colleges are using private schools as a proxy as who can afford sticker price

It's one thing to claim the schools courses are as demanding or more as AP, it's another to brag that your kid took a lighter work load and still got into T20[/quote]

Nah. The public schools with all the APs actually have severe grade inflation. The colleges know this.[/quote]

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