Some colleges also give grades and not just credit for high scores on AP exams. I started college with 30 credit hours, 16 of them A credit from scoring 5’s on AP exams. That was my only 4.0 “semester”… it definitely helped my college GPA. It was also a few decades ago, so not sure if that is still common.
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Yikes. Looks like Bugs just “Bobbitted” Florida.
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Maybe it isnt pandering so much as belief.
DeSantis needs to prove to the ignorant that he’s more anti-woke than Governor Fleece Vest of Virginia – who is having his own education “issue” right now to stir up the rubes – something to do with “commendation letters” for students who WEREN’T named National Merit Semifinalists.
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Both Dukakis and Quayle run circles around DiSantis in the personality department. Neither can lay claim to the misanthropic snarl that is his trademark.
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Here in WA there is no GPA weighting for AP classes, but schools do AP weighting to determine valedictorians and other class honors. So the kid with a 4.0 who took 15 AP classes gets ranked ahead of the kid with a 4.0 who only took 8 AP classes for class honors. Otherwise at a big school you might end up with 25 co-valedictorians. My daughter’s only blemish on her otherwise perfect 4.0 GPA was one A- she got in math during the start of COVID when schools closed and her grades were frozen in place. That dropped her to a class rank of about 45th out of 550 and she had 9 AP classes. I have no idea how many kids there were with perfect 4.0 GPAs. You gotta have some way to pick who is the valedictorian to give the speech at graduation.
If this were not kabuki, the College Board people would simply cancel all AP tests in the state.
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Yes, I see, there is some similarity there …
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Well obviously, but white students are being treated as a protected class here, as if learning what took place in this country’s past is more painful for them than those children whose ancestors suffered under racist domination and exploitation.
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"you’ve got politicians that are banning not assault rifles, but the word ‘Latinx’.”
Democrats have better priorities.
can I just say how ELATED I am to have moved recently from Florida to Illinois???
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Loyola Chicago, 25k/yr, science.
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Wonderful. Congratulations!
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It was all her, but thanks. I’m very proud of her.
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Sounds like we’re both lucky, proud dads.
Tell me more.
My daughter graduates HS this spring and is applying at various colleges - so far batting a thousand. Like you say - it’s all her. I’m super impressed and wonder how the hell I ever transitioned into an adult. The kids are alright.
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They obviously didn’t. Heh.
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