Do private schools have it easier than normal publics?

ucbalumnus
Sat, 08 Nov 2014 02:51:32 +0000

cobrat:

Also, even a score of 5 doesn’t necessarily mean the student has covered the material in the same breadth and depth of the equivalent course at some respectable/elite colleges. There’s a YMMV depending on the teacher quality and most importantly, the individual student him/herself. Folks with 5s have flunked or came to the academic brink in courses for which they were supposedly well-prepared for.



Best would be to try the old final exams for the college’s course that may be skipped with AP credit in order to see how well the student knows the material from the college’s point of view. Neither wasting a course repeating what one knows well nor jumping into a more advanced course that one is not prepared for is desirable, so it is best to use as much information as necessary to make the proper placement decision.