AP Psychology

[GingerbreadLatte]

Many of us could use a diversion from the anguish of waiting for interviews/results.

 

The NYT Education blog reports that Dartmouth plans to stop giving credit for AP scores, citing that 90% of students who ace the AP Psych exam subsequently fail the college's own placement test.

 

What was your experience with AP Psych? How do people feel about this new policy? Should more colleges adopt it?

[RubyBright]

Well, I think that's dumb. I scored a 5 on the test, placed out of the intro to psych class, and now am graduating with a respectably high GPA in my psych major. Now that AP courses have to have their curriculum approved to be called AP, it seems a bit silly. If they made their Intro to Psych classes wait a certain number of months after finishing the class to take the placement test, how many of them would also fail, I wonder?

[veggiez]

I didn't go to an Ivy League school, but personally I think I got more out of my AP psych class than most people did out of Intro to psych in college. I tutor intro now and have yet to see anything in that class that wasn't taught to me in AP psych. They should do some validity tests between AP psych and the intro courses before discrediting the effort that students put into studying for the AP test.