Choate no longer offers an AP curriculum, but any student can sit for any AP exam they wish. Years ago, Choate felt pressured by parents to offer an AP curriculum even though those courses were never the most rigorous available. Taking “all APs” would have meant choosing the substandard courses and would not check the “most rigorous” box in any subject. During our son’s time there, the new headmaster began the campaign to educate parents as to why an AP curriculum was not necessary at most of the New England boarding schools as these are the schools the APs were developed, in part, to measure against. The AP program wasted school resources, and more than one teacher indicated to us that it was the ones who drew the short straw who had to teach them. No one benefited from teaching or taking a teach-to-the-test course at a school whose education mission is the opposite of that.
I hope this trend takes hold at every school where the the AP curriculum is not the best the school has to offer.