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...other business, the Faculty Council approved a CUE proposal to raise the minimum Advanced Placement (AP) score needed to place out of the College's language requirement from...
College officials said the change does not constitute a new requirement--which would violate a stated goal of Faculty to reduce undergraduate requirements--but a balancing of the already existing standards. Those involved with the change said they did not believe a score of a 3 on the AP correlated with other College standards...
...higher than a 3 on an AP test and you can't get a 600 on an SAT II and you can't pass the Harvard language placement test, I think it's fair to conclude that you really don't know the language well enough to be exempt from taking a course," he wrote in an e-mail message...
Meanwhile, Americans heard a different story. The Associated Press put the number of casualties at 23. In cold and dispassionate language, the AP reported that independent journalists had counted about 15 bodies in the rubble, and that "most have been burned beyond recognition and were horribly mangled from the blast...
...Basically, the AP tests are what we would consider high school-level science and math, they are useful only for placement--not for credit--in most cases," Michel says. "Students in the sciences take much more rigorous courses in math and sciences...