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CMV: I believe the Collegeboard is a scam

 As I said in the title, I believe the Collegeboard is a scam. The reason I say that is because they are slowly taking over the US educational system. Public schools are paying the Collegeboard for having AP® courses in their schools. Some schools pay for students taking test, as it will make the school look good. People use the amount of AP® courses in order to determine how good a school is. It also shows the amount of income inequality, as schools with a lot of money have more AP® courses than ones without. I believe that instead of schools having AP® courses and making students take a stupid test, schools should offer dual credit courses, which would offer both college and high school credit and teachers would have a broader curriculum.


The SAT is the same story. Instead of using that test, universities should make their own test, and the students that are interested in taking the test or want to go to the university would take and the test would determine If the student is qualified for that ONE university they want to join.

I see it inside the school I attend how it has been affected. I hope we, as people, can change it.

Edit: added  the last part and I wrote this on mobile, so sorry for not knowing where to put the disclaimer.
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If Choate and Municipal High both offer dual credit courses, MIT isn't about to give college credit for both of those.  It knows that Choate has a good dual credit course, so it might accept Choate's course.  But Municipal High's "dual credit" course might not be at that level.  Right now, MIT can say that an AP course at Municipal High with a score of 5 counts for college credit.  But without the AP test, what tells MIT that Municipal High's "dual credit" course is at a college level?

Regarding the SAT, the main issue is that having to take twenty tests to get into twenty schools would be a serious cost (in $ and time) for the applicants.  This wouldn't matter too much for rich kids, but it would be a severe handicap for poorer students.