The adcoms from selective schools are telling the kids at your school that there better be lots of “AP courses” because they want to see applicants with very challenging HS courseload…not because the colleges use those to recalculate GPA.
Remember…those very selective schools have very competitive applicants. If your student isn’t…that won’t bode well for acceptances.
But really…this has NOTHING to do,with the colleges recalculating GPA…at all.