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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The seven top private schools in the area issued a joint statement that they’re all eliminating AP.  According to the Post, before “dropping AP, the schools surveyed nearly 150 colleges and universities about the potential impact. They said admission officers assured them the change would not hurt the chances of their students.”

Of course it won’t.  Privilege begets privilege.  [/quote]

As a public school parent, this strikes me as privileged parents gaming the system so their children can never be compared directly to public school children. Colleges will just be told to trust them that their classes — and their children — are superior.[/quote]

This.  I'm an Ivy League grad who back in the day started with sophomore standing due to AP credits.  The self justifying nature of this forum on DCUM about what parents think they are paying for at the Big 3-5 is always entertaining - as is what people seem to think Ivy schools and educations are like (even people like me that can make individualized statements like in my experience my HS AP math was more challenging than my core college courses).  In today's world, APs have proliferated and become too equalized.  The elites opting out is logical to find a new differentiating status and privilege edge.  [/quote]

The proliferation of AP courses to a large minority of students has completed watered down their challenge and purpose. But it's not true that they are too equalizing. I attended a panel last summer of college admissions directors, who talked about how they could compare students coming from vastly different educational backgrounds. They have school profiles that give them a better idea of the actual challenge of each school, and they rely on that knowledge. They passed out redacted applications with the school profiles to show us. It was eye-opening. Seniors in small rural county public schools have to be compared to those from independent schools, who also have to be compared to home schooled kids. AP courses show that a kid has challenged themselves to the utmost, but if a school doesn't offer AP, the admissions people only look to see if the kid took the most challenging courses that his individual school offered. So eliminating the designation really doesn't do anything in terms of the college admissions picture because they will still be evaluating if a student challenged himself.
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