I have a feeling more top schools are gonna go with this because they realized how important standardized scores are for an objective metric. It’s not like I’m going to be affected by this change in the college admission process, but I believe it’s quite fair. Colleges still maintain that students who don’t take many APs because of their environment will not be penalized. If you really think about it, those who have good AP class grades and bad AP scores are students who are in grade inflated yet privileged backgrounds who could not take full advantage of their resources. 1300 SAT from a competitive Bay Area is different from 1300 SAT from West Virginia. Competitive Bay Area students with 1300 SAT shouldn’t be not penalized, they couldn’t take advantage of the environment. *** This does not take into account things like ADHD and other disadvantages. I am pretty sure most colleges understand special circumstances, and if they don’t, they’re in the wrong.
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