Empowering Parents in Elite College Admissions

Did your child’s high school recently eliminate AP courses from its curriculum? Does your child’s high school restrict the number of universities your child can apply to as seniors? Did your child’s high school counselor tell you that students who do not submit an SAT or ACT score face no … 

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The Importance of AP Courses

It’s the age-old question in elite college admissions: Is it better to get an A in a non-honors class or a B in an honors class? The answer, of course, is it’s better to get an A in an honors course when applying to America’s most selective universities. We know, … 

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UPS Loses AP Exams

Just where is that box full of AP exams? If you’re one of the over 100 students who took an AP exam this past spring that was lost in transit to the headquarters of The College Board, aim your arrows at the United Parcel Service. And know that New York’s … 

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A Call for The College Board to Change Its AP Testing Policy

Back in January, The College Board announced the elimination of the SAT Subject Tests. The SAT Subject Tests had long been one of The College Board’s major lines of business but the organization, facing the toughest year it has faced in its history, saw the writing on the wall. With … 

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2021 AP Exams

The 2021 Advanced Placement exams will be offered over three different administrations. The change, as recently announced by College Board, is of course due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The dates for Administration 1, in which the tests are administered at schools, are as follows: May 3 – 7, May … 

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More on This Year’s AP Exams

As we reported a few weeks ago, in spite of the pandemic that has shut down schools across the land, AP exams are on for this May. Hey, did you really think College Board — ever cognizant of its bottom line — wouldn’t figure out a way to keep their … 

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AP Testing in the Age of Coronavirus

If you were worried that AP tests would be canceled this spring, save your worries for other things — like your family’s health and the spiraling economy — because AP tests are on for 2020. The AP tests will, however, be modified since, well, students aren’t exactly in school to … 

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College Board Finds Way to Likely Increase Revenue

Yesterday, we wrote about how College Board, the maker of the AP exams, announced plans to move up the registration deadline for AP exams beginning next year. As reported Jim Jump for “Inside Higher Ed” in a piece entitled “Ethical College Admissions: AP Registration,” “Whereas registration for the May AP … 

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An Overview of AP Exams

Has the Advanced Placement curriculum historically favored the affluent? Yes. The AP curriculum consists of a total of 39 courses, although high schools tend to offer only some of these courses. For many years, the AP curriculum was the curriculum of choice at high schools in predominantly affluent neighborhoods. But, … 

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AP Testing

We’ve been writing quite a bit about AP testing of late. To briefly sum up what we think about AP testing, we advise our students at Ivy Coach to take as many AP tests as possible. We advise them to take AP tests in subjects that their high schools don’t even … 

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