Since you clicked on the title, it’s likely you already know what “AP vs IB vs AICE” is referring to. But just in case: AP – Advanced Placement IB – International Baccalaureate AICE – Advanced International Certificate of Education (This is also often referred to as the Cambridge curriculum) All three of the above are…
Two weeks ago, which now seems like a year ago, I wrote about the preliminary anticipated impact of Covid-19 on college admissions. Since then, there have been daily developments and the picture has become much clearer. So I thought it was time to check back in here and attempt a round-up of what we now…
It’s time to talk about something that many families don’t discover or understand until it’s college application time. Sometimes, families don’t even realize it then. But application time is often when you discover that your student’s high school GPA (Grade Point Average) is not necessarily the same GPA that colleges will look at for admission. …
Recently, Advanced Placement (AP) classes are back in the news. Eight elite high schools in the Washington DC area announced that they will no longer offer them. This has stirred up new controversy about whether the classes are worthwhile. Did those high schools drop AP classes because they are not challenging and don’t help to…
Advanced Placement versus Dual Enrollment…this is a debate that I knew almost nothing about when my older kids were college searching. Dual enrollment, or dual credit, just was not something students did much at their high school. Dual enrollment, where a student takes a class and receives both high school and college credit simultaneously seems…