AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth
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#2If AP classes don't give credit, I wonder if this will lead some students to graduate high school after three years.
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#3I know that the AP system is under-fire, but this just screams money grab technique to me...
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#4Accompanying headline: My Kid With AP Credits Will No Longer Be Applying to Dartmouth
Re: AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth
#5Maybe the AP system has degraded over the years. When I was in school it helped immensely and I was able to enter college as a mid-year sophomore and graduate early. And the level of material and rigor in AP courses seemed roughly comparable to 100 and 200 level college courses. The cynic in me sees this as a money making move, as it means that more incoming students will have to pay more to graduate.
I'm really curious whether Dartmouth performed any studies on the matter or if this is just a spontaneous decision based on anecdotal evidence.
P.S. Also, in my experience and observation taking 100 and 200 level classes in college is a pretty significant ripoff outside of perhaps the top 20 universities in the nation. Almost all of the time such courses tend to be taught by assistants and are heavily textbook based. For the vast majority of people pursuing a college education getting an AA at a community college and then transferring to a local state college is a far, far better option financially.
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#6The AP gradations are useless. If I remember right the calculus exam has about 120 possible points and you only need about a 56 to score a 5.
Re: AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth
#7AP credits have never been a particularly great ROI. My wife went the different route of signing up for classes at the local community college. You get a lot more out of them (in the rush to keep up with the joneses, high school administrators are calling everything "AP" these days), and also colleges are quite willing to accept those credits for lower-level classes.
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#8If AP classes don't give credit, I wonder if this will lead some students to graduate high school after three years.
And get a jump start working on their Bachelor's degrees which now take six years.
Seems like the high schools need to add some more rigorous classes for seniors.
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#9Accompanying headline: My Kid With AP Credits Will No Longer Be Applying to Dartmouth
Or, what's more likely for most people: Kids with AP Credits Will Now Have Slightly More Debt After Graduating From Dartmouth.
Re: AP Credit Will No Longer Be Accepted At Dartmouth
#10The AP gradations are useless. If I remember right the calculus exam has about 120 possible points and you only need about a 56 to score a 5.
I took an exam where the median score is typically zero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathemati...