<p>I am currently very familiar with the situation at the Stanford University EPGY Online High School, which I think is the only accredited high school in the world which has active Stanford faculty members teaching classes to high school students for their regular school year high school subjects. Several of the courses taught by the Stanford faculty members have AP designation and thus are taught more or less with an eye on the AP syllabus. It may or may not be that Stanford offers credit toward graduation (as contrasted with placement into desired courses, or generalized advanced standing) for this or that AP course, but college policies on those issues are not a statement that AP courses are not valuable for high school students to take. The college admission counselor of the EPGY Online High School is a former admission officer at Stanford and certainly doesn’t discourage current students from taking AP tests.</p>