<p>Token,
Many of the top prep schools are cutting back on the number of AP courses they offer. The feeling is that once again, they are teaching for a test instead of the material.</p>
<p>The AP course may be the best at your high school, I won’t argue that. But, from an academic prospect, it may not be the best educational offering. If it is the best, by all means take the test. But, for example, Deerfield Academy does not offer AP English now, but about 30 different English classes which are more in depth. The same for history, etc.</p>
<p>The object being do you want the kids to learn or get kudos to look good for admissions staff.</p>
<p>As I noted, the debate is between the admissions staff who currently have “no better” way of looking at students than the AP courses and the academic staff who think APs should be eliminated. There is alot of online data and discussions on this. The intern’l bacc may be the replacement.</p>