For You Helicopter Parents -- AP Scores Available

paying3tuitions
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:44:27 +0000

It worked just like Counting Down said in Post #18. I also appreciate reading everyone else. S did well! I phoned his answer machine at work, so that will be cheerful news. He’ll calculate how many credits it will gain him at college.

This is really odd reading. Can you imagine an archaeologist 1,000 years from now trying to figure what on earth we’re talking about here? Very technical…

What a difference for our family to be in a suburban h.s. that offers so many AP courses. Youngest S took five of them, having skipped 11th grade, so that’s pretty hearty. Oldest two could only take the one course offered at the old school.

I’ll pass this wisdom along: My older 2 got to college without any AP credits, since one of those places required a 5 to garner credit, the other didn’t even give grad credit for a “5” but would at least give entree to upper courses. It’s no tragedy, but I noticed that my 2 older kids really envied others from schools where more AP’s had been offered. Those kids had lighter course loads, entree into upper level classes without prerequisites, and some graduated a semester sooner. Although one of their colleges didn’t award actual credit towards graduation, even the pushup into post-entry classes in some departmetns would have been fun during freshman year.

The one who was steamed was my D, who was very talented in art and could have generated a portfolio, had she or we known about it (alas, no CC then on our radar screen). If only any of her h.s. art teachers or GC had mentioned a word about it. Those are judged by outside sources, so you needn’t have an AP Art Studio offered at school to generate the portfolio. Doing that is work, but she would have/could have.
Once senior year of college came, she was still cranking out 15 credits per term while others had much lighter schedules when they needed to think about honors projects, grad school aps, etc.

So if your kid is in a h.s. that doesn’t offer it, “AP Art” might be possible anyway if you have the makings for a portfolio.

Anyway, thanks all for writing!