Word: placement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still regarded by some as an unqualified genius and despised by others as a hopeless misfit, the Advanced Placement Sophomore is at least no longer the side-show freak he was in 1955. That fall the first two incoming students were admitted to Sophomore Standing. The 55 A.P. Sophomores this year occupy a definite, if not always uncomplicated, position in the academic picture, and they usually find out soon enough that they are no longer extraordinary...
This is not to say that their feat is any the less imposing; now, as in 1955, Advanced Placement Sophomores must hace satisfactory completed at least three college-level courses during their senior year in secondary school. Usually, passing performances on the College Board Advanced Placement Examinations, given in 11 fields, will ensure accreditation. In four areas--Chemistry, Physics, French, and Spanish--either an honors grade or a further examination tendered by the College is needed for Advanced Placement...
...most striking aspects of the Advanced Placement program is its rapid rate of growth...
Wilcox's largest concern about the A. P. program has been that students might take advanced classes in high school, reject Advanced Placement, and then settle for grinding out A's in college courses they had in effect already taken. Of course, men with full Sophomore Standing can not do this: their promotion is contingent upon credits received for their advanced work in high school. A student with A.P. in one or two courses, however, is under no compulsion to avoid repetition. So far, though, virtually no one has used his accelerated training for mere grade advantage: this academic honesty...
...education in Romance Languages and the University's. Even in composition, seemingly an area definite enough to admit of clear-cut levels of attainment, the CEEB and Harvard are miles apart. This fall, students who had passed, even with honors, the composition (or "Language") portions of College Board Advanced Placement Tests in Romance Languages had absolutely no assurance of eventual Advanced Placement...