PreAP and AP Parents Meeting

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Pre-AP and AP Parents Meeting

• September 27, 2006
• Westbury High School

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Impact of AP on 5-Year College Graduation Rates
Source Chrys Dougherty, Lynn Mellor, and Shuling
Jian, The Relationship Between Advanced Placement
and College Graduation (National Center for
Educational Accountability, 2006)
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AP and College Success

• One of the best standard predictors of academic
  success at Harvard is performance on Advanced
  Placement Examinations.
• Bill Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions Financial
  Aid
• Harvard University

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Factors InfluencingCollege Admission Decisions
NACAC Admission Trends Survey, 2001
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University of California Research (2004)

• After creating a pool of similar students by
  removing differences of GPA, school quality,
  parental education level, and family income
• This study emphatically supports the conclusion
  that AP Examinations are among the very best
  predictors of college performance. . . . The
  subject-specific, curriculum-intensive AP exams
  are the epitome of achievement tests, and their
  validity in predicting college performance should
  not be surprising.
• The Role of Advanced Placement and Honors
  Courses in College Admissions, by Saul Geiser
  and Veronica Santelices (2004).

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College Board Help

• College Board http//apcentral.collegeboard.com
• AP Exam College Credit Policies
  www.collegeboard.com/ap/creditpolicy
• College Board Services for Students with
  Disabilities www.collegeboard.com/ssd

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Common application, sample student resume,
scholarship information, other college information

• http//www.apstrategies.org/resourcecollege/

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AP Classes at Westbury H.S.

• AP Art History
• AP Biology
• AP Calculus AB
• AP Calculus BC
• AP Chemistry
• AP Computer Science
• AP English Language
• AP English Literature
• AP French Language

• AP Macro Economics
• AP Psychology
• AP Spanish Language
• AP Spanish Literature
• AP Statistics
• AP US Government
• AP US History
• AP World History

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Pre-AP Classes

• Pre-AP Biology
• Pre-AP Chemistry
• Pre-AP Physics
• Pre-AP Pre-Calculus
• Pre-AP Geometry
• Pre-AP Algebra 2
• Pre-AP Algebra 1

• Pre-AP English 1
• Pre-AP English 2
• Pre-AP World Geography
• Pre-AP French
• Pre-AP Spanish
• Pre-AP Computer Science