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Seattle National College Fair Review
I hope you didn't miss it. The Seattle National College Fair was on pace for the expected 12,000 to 15,000 attendees for the Sunday and Monday event. Approximately 300 colleges were represented. We surveyed a limited number of our members regarding the College Fair. We have not verified the accuracy of these comments. The battle cry we encourage all students/student advocates to consider is: Talk with college (colleges of choice) representatives as soon as possible in your high school career, regarding the below issues/questions. Each college/university/community college is different. Yes, we see strong/repeating patterns, but each student needs to verify AP/IB/Honors/Running Start issues directly with their colleges of choice.
Discussing these types of critical issues early can help students earn placement in the college of their first choice. We would love to publish additional comments in the next AP/IB Newsletter. Here are the comments we have received to date:
Columbia University
Sorry, UW College in the High School Courses do not apply. AP courses do however.
University of Victoria
The highest recommendation goes to the International Baccalaureate Diploma candidates.
Penn State
The "numbers" are very important: GPA, number of AP courses, SAT exam grades, …
George Washington University
Most of our students are in the top 10% of their class. High school students should take the most rigorous curriculum they can.
Richmond – The American University in London
AP and IB are highly regarded. High school GPA is recalculated – non-core classes are excluded.
University of Puget Sound
Take the most rigorous curriculum you can in high school. AP and IB are the top contenders. Honors courses are a distant second. Running Start is a distant third.
Cornish College of the Arts
January 10th, 2004 is National Portfolio Day
at Cornish. National Portfolio Days help further the artistic development of
young artists by bringing together experienced college representatives to review
work and offer critique.
National Portfolio Days are about the exchange
of information: about your work, yourself, your college plans, your concerns.
They are not an examination or a competition.
In addition to finished
pieces, your portfolio may include works in progress, sketchbooks, and tear
sheets. Do not spend an inordinate amount of time matting or framing your work,
or worrying about the presentation. The work itself is what is of
interest.
No Child Left Behind Act
The following is part of the No Child Left Behind Act
http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg14.htmlSEC. 1702. PURPOSES
(1) to support State and local efforts to raise academic standards through advanced placement programs, and thus further increase the number of students who participate and succeed in advanced placement programs;
(2) to encourage more of the 600,000 students who take advanced placement courses each year but do not take advanced placement exams each year, to demonstrate their achievements through taking the exams;
(3) to build on the many benefits of advanced placement programs for students, which benefits may include the acquisition of skills that are important to many employers, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores that are 100 points above the national averages, and the achievement of better grades in secondary school and in college than the grades of students who have not participated in the programs;
(4) to increase the availability and broaden the range of schools, including middle schools, that have advanced placement and pre-advanced placement programs;
(5) to demonstrate that larger and more diverse groups of students can participate and succeed in advanced placement programs;
(6) to provide greater access to advanced placement and pre-advanced placement courses and highly trained teachers for low-income and other disadvantaged students;
(7) to provide access to advanced placement courses for secondary school students at schools that do not offer advanced placement programs, increase the rate at which secondary school students participate in advanced placement courses, and increase the numbers of students who receive advanced placement test scores for which college academic credit is awarded;
(8) to increase the participation of low-income individuals in taking advanced placement tests through the payment or partial payment of the costs of the advanced placement test fees; and
(9) to increase the number of individuals that achieve a baccalaureate or advanced degree, and to decrease the amount of time such individuals require to attain such degrees.
Pertinent Links:
AP/IB Boosters Calendar
http://www.apibboosters.org/Calendar.htmlJHS November 2003 Calendar
http://cms.everett.k12.wa.us/jacksonhigh/November%202003
Thank you,
Todd Aagard
Chairperson
AP/IB Boosters
Advanced Placement Opportunities for
All Students