Admissions Officers Beware: Some Advanced Placement Scores Are Inflated

“While high school GPAs have been gliding upwards for years, college admissions officers have relied on Advanced Placement (AP) exams as a more stable, rigorous measure of college readiness. That confidence is now misplaced—at least for most of the exams that dominate the AP landscape. The College Board has phased in a new scoring system that has inflated student results...

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