Modern States Announcement

[cathgrl]

AP tests aren't easy to take if you aren't in high school, and AP classes are better preparation than anything Modern States can put together. Plus, AP tests are lower level credits, and a lot of them overlap CLEPs. Oh, well. They must have some kind of thing going with College Board.

I can't quite figure out how they decided to do certain CLEP and then certain AP. Like, it makes sense to do overlapping courses, because the material is already there (Biology, Calculus, English Lit, Psych, Macroecon, Microecon, Spanish). But then, they didn't do other overlapping ones (Am Govt, Chemistry, French, US History CLEP's but not AP). And they did totally separate AP exams that don't correspond to CLEP (CompSci, Environmental Science, Human Geography, Italian).

I'm wondering if they created their own CLEP courses, but then saw that there were already courses out there for these AP exams from instructors (possibly MOOC's) and they are picking the low-hanging fruit? And they will add more as they come? Hard to figure out their strategy.

Either way, I'm happy that they exist though. Not complaining, as much as curious about what's going on over there.

I'm only guessing, but there are 2.6 million AP test-takers per year, compared to only 55,000 DSST test takers - I think they are wise serving the bigger group. I'm also pretty excited about the AP classes, simply because a lot of homeschool parents prefer AP for admissions *as opposed to credit* and it's very hard to find AP curriculum as a homeschooler....unless you have tons of money lol. https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/di...t-2016.pdf

I bet you that 99.9% of AP test takers will have no use for Modern States. There are already more well-known test prep companies on top of the fact that the overwhelming majority of AP test takers have access to AP classes. I believe poor students can get fee waivers now. I can't remember.

It's a cool charity, but one of their target groups is adult learners, and they aren't going to take AP tests in large numbers. It's too difficult to find a school that will let you sit for an exam, and the exams are only offered at certain times of the year. I would be curious to know how many AP vouchers they'll end up giving out. I suspect that many, if not most, of their students will be adult learners from this forum. We have a tendency to inundate everyone as evidenced by what CSU Global told me twice.

It could very well be that the 10,000 vouchers will be gone before the March deadline to register for AP exams.

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AP tests aren't easy to take if you aren't in high school, and AP classes are better preparation than anything Modern States can put together. Plus, AP tests are lower level credits, and a lot of them overlap CLEPs. Oh, well. They must have some kind of thing going with College Board.

I can't quite figure out how they decided to do certain CLEP and then certain AP. Like, it makes sense to do overlapping courses, because the material is already there (Biology, Calculus, English Lit, Psych, Macroecon, Microecon, Spanish). But then, they didn't do other overlapping ones (Am Govt, Chemistry, French, US History CLEP's but not AP). And they did totally separate AP exams that don't correspond to CLEP (CompSci, Environmental Science, Human Geography, Italian).

I'm wondering if they created their own CLEP courses, but then saw that there were already courses out there for these AP exams from instructors (possibly MOOC's) and they are picking the low-hanging fruit? And they will add more as they come? Hard to figure out their strategy.

Either way, I'm happy that they exist though. Not complaining, as much as curious about what's going on over there.

I'm only guessing, but there are 2.6 million AP test-takers per year, compared to only 55,000 DSST test takers - I think they are wise serving the bigger group. I'm also pretty excited about the AP classes, simply because a lot of homeschool parents prefer AP for admissions *as opposed to credit* and it's very hard to find AP curriculum as a homeschooler....unless you have tons of money lol. https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/di...t-2016.pdf

I bet you that 99.9% of AP test takers will have no use for Modern States. There are already more well-known test prep companies on top of the fact that the overwhelming majority of AP test takers have access to AP classes. I believe poor students can get fee waivers now. I can't remember.

It's a cool charity, but one of their target groups is adult learners, and they aren't going to take AP tests in large numbers. It's too difficult to find a school that will let you sit for an exam, and the exams are only offered at certain times of the year. I would be curious to know how many AP vouchers they'll end up giving out. I suspect that many, if not most, of their students will be adult learners from this forum. We have a tendency to inundate everyone as evidenced by what CSU Global told me twice.

It could very well be that the 10,000 vouchers will be gone before the March deadline to register for AP exams. I wonder how many were used during beta.