Make Your AP Exams Count
We heard from one of the families we work with recently with a question about whether to sit for a specific Advanced Placement exam or not, considering what a poor job her daughter’s teacher was doing. As an educator, my gut response is to take every exam seriously and prepare accordingly. However, AP exams stand apart from every other assessment high schoolers encounter on their road to college, and four strong reasons make the case for sitting–and studying for–every AP exam you can: 1. Excellence is its own reward. Advanced Placement classes represent the highest level of academic rigor most schools offer, and thus are filled with students used to scoring at the far right end of the bell curve. When you’re that competitive, you play to win. 2. Colleges care more than ever about great AP scores. Obviously, top grades in AP classes is a necessary yet not sufficient…