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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many threads on this here.

GDS dropped AP courses but still offer proctored AP tests. Many faculty in UL classes end up teaching side sessions in April to help kids prep for AP tests.

The irony is that in the official GDS college profile sent to universities, they still list how many kids took AP tests and how many tests taken in total.

Way to walk the talk

For all the "relax guys" GDS hoo ha, they actually further the arms race with stuff like this

"ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMS
In May 2022, 80 GDS high school students sat for 113 Advanced
Placement examinations; 38% earned scores of 5, 80% earned
scores of 4 or above, and 91% earned scores of 3 or above."

The reality is that many kids who plan to apply for Top 50 schools started self study taking APs at GDS in junior year. Also kids who planned to apply to UK schools as well as kids who planned to apply to state flagships which increasingly actually do look at APs NOT just for course credit but also as a signal of rigor - especially when they don't know that the cabal of DC schools stopped offering AP courses. And the kids in public schools and many parts of the country are taking 7 - 14 AP tests by end of senior year. For average UCLA or Berkeley admit, i think close to 12 APs....

Longer story but many of the junior class at GDS took at least one AP test last year (the now seniors) - except CC office discouraged this and yet told colleges proudly how many GDS kids took APs. so yeah....there's good consistency for you.

Only this year did this GDS CO start actually telling freshman kids and parents that you should start to plan to take AP tests if you want to apply to UK or get course credit at many US schools (not Ivies)

Until this year, they only told families in junior year and by then it was too late to sign up for junior spring AP tests for self-study so only parents who pushed hard or had outside help even knew to sign up for AP tests for their kids.

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I don't get it...I can understand why you may officially drop the AP designation (as a PP listed all the college board nonsense), but the school can still offer all the AP tests you did previously and tell teachers to spend a measly 2 weeks helping kids prep for the test.  I am sure the teachers basically taught the AP curriculum, but it is just like SAT/ACT prep...you spend 2 weeks teaching to the test.

Seems like that is a win-win for everyone.[/quote]

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