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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]When did AP Bs become the equivalent of Ds? This is so weird. [/quote][/b]

It's not weird.  It became so as the colleges needed a way to evaluated unhooked students.  A kid with a 4.6 has 12 AP courses with all As.  That's what you need to get into an elite school.  Each B drags down the 4.6[/quote]

It's weird. Amazingly enough, those of us with 3.5 GPA's are fully functional adult. Even went to elite schools. [b]So what changed?[/quote][/b]

AP courses.  WE had 4.0s, which meant straight As in regular courses.  Now kids need a 4.6 to be competittive which means 12 AP courses with perfect grades.[/quote]

[b]I graduated in 1997 with 2 AP courses (physics & chemistry), which was on the low side. Couldn't hack AP math and hated the humanities, which rules out English, foreign language, whatever else. But all those courses existed back then in my suburban high school.[/quote][/b]

and...?[/quote]

PP said we didn't have as many available APs. That's not true. [/quote]

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