” T]ens of thousands of Americans are attending schools that don’t give them full payment for their AP work,” according to a report.
According to a recent report from the Progressive Policy Institute, colleges across the United States are preventing individuals from completing degrees in less than four times by accepting fewer Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate funds.
The author of the report, who is also an educator, claimed that economic desires and skepticism about changing the AP and IB plans are to chastise.
AP and IB funds are scientific funds earned in high school that allow students to omit entry-level university courses if they are accepted by their universities.
According to PPI Board Member Paul Weinstein, the least AP report required for learners to obtain credit has been raised in the statement. Additionally, some schools are restricting the number of subject areas that you receive course credit, restricting the number of credits students can receive, and caps the number of credits they can receive.
” However, as this investigation confirms, tens of thousands of Americans are attending universities that don’t give them full payment for their AP work”, the report says.
It also states that ten universities do not give any credit for AP and/or IB labor, including Dartmouth College, Amherst College, and Brown University.
Weinstein stated via email to The College Fix that “schools are denying learners who have worked hard, spent period, and invested their money to achieve a passing grade in a course that should be taken into consideration for their college level.”
A level of A is correlated with a 5 on the AP or 7 on the IB, according to Weinstein, adding that many colleges simply accept high grades.
” In addition, schools are often less than forthcoming about what they will accept for credit and often mislead students ( intentionally and unintentionally )”, Weinstein said.
Additionally, some schools allow students to apply AP and IB credits to cancel out of certain beginning courses, but these schools refuse to grant students program credit, Weinstein’s report states.
Why is it not great enough to receive college credit if the AP and IB work is good enough to cancel out of? Weinstein addressed The Fix.
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He attributed part of the issue to schools ‘ financial motivations. As students who use AP and/or IB credits to bypass entry-level courses pay less in tuition, colleges and universities partially enforce these restrictions to prevent lost revenue.
According to Weinstein, there are “legitimate concerns about the recent efforts by the College Board to recalibrate the AP scores in some subject areas” as another reason why so many colleges restrict these credits.  ,
Andrew Rotherham, co-founder of the education reform non-profit Bellwether, similarly told The Fix via email that” changes around AP that have made colleges more wary”.
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which criticized universities for denying students the chance to get a head start on college, contacted The Fix via e-mail, which had received a forthcoming review of the PPI report from its president emeritus, Chester Finn.
However, he also pointed out that Weinstein limited his study to 150 elite institutions. Therefore, the report cannot be “extrapolated to American higher education as a whole”.
Finn claimed that, thanks to the Advanced Placement scores you provided upon arrival, it was relatively simple for him to earn a degree at Harvard University in 1962. While he was a” solid student” in high school, he didn’t score any fives on his AP exams.
Harvard established a policy that would apply to students who received three or more AP scores before entering college.
Using AP credits offered students the opportunity to save one year’s tuition, to bypass freshman-level courses and to “launch” readied students more quickly into post-graduate life, he stated.
However, it also meant that colleges retain a smaller percentage of tuition money from a three-year student rather than a four-year student.
Universities” should be striving to reduce their own costs while reducing the financial burden on students and expanding the opportunities to earn degrees without losing rigor,” according to Finn.
Weinstein, however, proposed broader reforms in his email to The Fix. He suggested that the United States “reform the Department of Education” to “give it a clear mission to lower the cost of college tuition ( and support alternatives to college for some jobs ), and give it the tools to get the job done.”
The College Fix also reached out to Stanford University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University in the last two weeks for comment on their AP and IB credit policies. None responded.
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