Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 09:38     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here again - I see lots of comments about AP tests being used to place out of college classes. I get that.

What about the AP test scores being used in admissions as a sign of rigor or academic qualification? I guess that's the question behind my question.


I have one public and one private child. My public school child has loaded up on APs since 10th grade. He never bothered to take the exams. It was only used as a tool to show rigor and pump up his weighted GPA. He was accepted Columbia. He basically got into all his top schools.

Im probably going to pull my middle schooler for public high school and follow the same strategy.



A ballsier move would be to take the AP tests without taking the classes.


How does that show anything about the student’s work ethic or rigor?
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 09:37     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that colleges don’t use the tests as confirmation that the kid can actually learn the material. Seems like an excellent weed out metric.


Well they cost $90+/exam, for starters.


There is financial aid fee reductions for tests.



Correct. Bargain for 4 credits or to show some level of mastery of material.
MCPS pressures all its UrM to take free subsidized AP tests. Regardless of level of preparedness and eventual outcomes.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 09:34     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that colleges don’t use the tests as confirmation that the kid can actually learn the material. Seems like an excellent weed out metric.


the fact that they don't should tell you something about whether AP tests are useful or just a scam. If AP classes are designed as college equivalents, then you should wonder why kids in MoCo take APUSH in 9th grade.

Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 09:34     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that colleges don’t use the tests as confirmation that the kid can actually learn the material. Seems like an excellent weed out metric.


Never knew private school parents were so obsessed with standardized tests.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 09:33     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that colleges don’t use the tests as confirmation that the kid can actually learn the material. Seems like an excellent weed out metric.


Well they cost $90+/exam, for starters.


There is financial aid fee reductions for tests.



Only for FARMs.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 08:39     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that colleges don’t use the tests as confirmation that the kid can actually learn the material. Seems like an excellent weed out metric.


Well they cost $90+/exam, for starters.


There is financial aid fee reductions for tests.

Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 08:35     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that colleges don’t use the tests as confirmation that the kid can actually learn the material. Seems like an excellent weed out metric.


Well they cost $90+/exam, for starters.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 08:31     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP here again - I see lots of comments about AP tests being used to place out of college classes. I get that.

What about the AP test scores being used in admissions as a sign of rigor or academic qualification? I guess that's the question behind my question.


I have one public and one private child. My public school child has loaded up on APs since 10th grade. He never bothered to take the exams. It was only used as a tool to show rigor and pump up his weighted GPA. He was accepted Columbia. He basically got into all his top schools.

Im probably going to pull my middle schooler for public high school and follow the same strategy.



A ballsier move would be to take the AP tests without taking the classes.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 08:17     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
I am shocked that colleges don’t use the tests as confirmation that the kid can actually learn the material. Seems like an excellent weed out metric.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 07:51     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:That’s very interesting. My c/o 2021 hs grad submitted all those test scores, and their private REQUIRES students to sit the exam for each AP class.

Is he hs c/o 2022? I wonder what hs. Tough admit, Columbia. Congratulations and good luck to him


Well, public schools do not pay for all students to take the exams, and the colleges do not care as much as you think they do about the score.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 07:48     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:STA is not moving to zero APs. My kid is taking an additional 3 next year and the school encourages tests in a ther classes not designated AP. St. Albans has fewer than public schools but still offers AP and lists them as such on transcript.


This just isn’t true


It is at least through next year, according to my kid. He is sitting for AP tests this May and has AP classes on the class request form he recently completed for next year. And, his teachers talk about continuing to teach AP classes, according to him.
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 07:24     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
That’s very interesting. My c/o 2021 hs grad submitted all those test scores, and their private REQUIRES students to sit the exam for each AP class.

Is he hs c/o 2022? I wonder what hs. Tough admit, Columbia. Congratulations and good luck to him
Anonymous
Post 04/25/2022 03:03     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:OP here again - I see lots of comments about AP tests being used to place out of college classes. I get that.

What about the AP test scores being used in admissions as a sign of rigor or academic qualification? I guess that's the question behind my question.


I have one public and one private child. My public school child has loaded up on APs since 10th grade. He never bothered to take the exams. It was only used as a tool to show rigor and pump up his weighted GPA. He was accepted Columbia. He basically got into all his top schools.

Im probably going to pull my middle schooler for public high school and follow the same strategy.

Anonymous
Post 04/24/2022 21:33     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:STA is not moving to zero APs. My kid is taking an additional 3 next year and the school encourages tests in a ther classes not designated AP. St. Albans has fewer than public schools but still offers AP and lists them as such on transcript.


This just isn’t true
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2022 17:32     Subject: AP Testing Still a Thing at Sidwell/GDS/Maret/Potomac/St Albans/NCS?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:STA is not moving to zero APs. My kid is taking an additional 3 next year and the school encourages tests in a ther classes not designated AP. St. Albans has fewer than public schools but still offers AP and lists them as such on transcript.


I guess they fooled those other schools in the 'pact.'


I think the plan changed after they were sued.