AP credit policy change at Dartmouth

menefrega
Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:16:13 +0000

AP courses and AP Credits are already completely useless. You have freshmen and sophomores taking AP classes; scoring 5s on the AP exams. What happens 2 or 3 years later when they get to college? Are they going to still know everything they needed to know to get that 5 on that particular day in their lives?

This whole AP thing is a boondoogle designed to keep a not-needed industry going. As for the whole rigor thing - toss it in the trash bin. Most of these kids are smart enough and tough enough to survive what college will throw at them.

While the method used (inaccurate information) to achieve the result should be dealt with, I think that Dartmouth may have gotten this one right in spite of themselves.