Self Studying AP?

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I’m just going to assume that you were one of those people in high school that couldn’t get above a C+ in your AP courses, right?

You know what happens when you assume, but for the record, your assumption is incorrect. Additionally, I scored well on all my AP exams, but thanks for your concern.

Additionally, those “facts” about Chinese and Calculus BC being the only outliers scoring significantly above 20%? You might want to check that again

I do not need to check again, because I did not say that they were the only ones. Perhaps you need to look up “e.g.” in the dictionary.

as opposed to me, being here, “a user that has been here for three days,” developing much more advanced and detailed rebuttals.

Please let me know when you have presented an “advanced and detailed rebuttal.”

cheating in the United States is rampant and plagues nearly every class ever taken in high school. From Art 1 to Calculus BC, it is ubiquitous and never- ending in its search to corrupt and deceive.

Which has nothing to do with the topic on hand. Or is this another of your “advanced and detailed rebuttals?”

I’m fairly certain that even you can depict that they have realized this failure in high school education and will more greatly value a high AP score as opposed to a solid A throughout the year and only a 3 in an exam.

Alternatively, colleges might believe that a student knows how to take a 3 hour exam, but does not really understand the material, which is part of the reason why Dartmouth stopped accepting AP credit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/education/dartmouth-stops-credits-for-excelling-on-ap-test.html
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He might think that, but no Admissions Officer is going to tell an applicant why an application was rejected with that level of specificity. The best one can hope for an explanation is “So many qualified applicants, so few spaces.” A rejected applicant may try to do some Monday morning quarterbacking, but it will all be speculation.

freshmen take these courses without prior knowledge to what they encompass, and mostly, I repeat, MOSTLY, bring down national averages in AP scores.

Finally a point of agreement, although I would further argue that it is not so much that the freshman have no prior knowledge as much as they are HS freshman. AP’s in theory are college-level classes, and there are few (although there are exceptions) HS freshman who are ready to take college level classes.