DePauw awards credit for a number of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs, including College Board AP, International Baccalaureate (IB), dual enrollment, advanced college, and A Levels.

The College Board’s Advanced Placement courses have become omnipresent in American high schools, supposedly representing a leg up for the college bound, the AP tests a chance for the best and ...

This past week, several reports were distributed, describing how the College Board had begun a process of recalibrating (which they call validating) Advanced Placement (AP) scores. What does this mean ...

The advanced placement test is a computer based examination that places the student in the proper level of French or Spanish. The exam score will determine whether the student is placed in French or ...

More and more high school students are enrolling in Advanced Placement courses with the hope that the experience will better prepare them for college and boost their chances in the application process ...

Advanced Placement classes are often seen as stepping stones to college – both academically and financially. Students who successfully pass the end-of-year exams can earn college credit in high school ...

High school students take advanced placement classes to prepare for the rigors of college coursework. Yet, retired teacher Junia Yearwood says, in some schools, students who are unprepared are being ...

The AP program has expanded rapidly since 1990 to become the primary program for providing US public high school students with advanced coursework, with nearly two in five graduates earning AP credit ...

More high-school students are taking Advanced Placement exams than ever—just as questions about their value are growing. At least 20 states now require public universities to award credit for strong ...

Some years ago, I was invited to speak at a national convention of high-school teachers of Advanced Placement (AP) psychology courses. AP courses, as you probably know, are high-school courses ...