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Eastern boasts of its diversity and its high college acceptance rates. But between those two stats lies a strict color line. Ashong and his best friend were the only two black students in Advanced Placement courses, and his parents had to argue with the administration to get him into those classes...
...became angry at his fellow students who had the opportunity to take advanced placement (A.P.) courses in high school and had already studied the material in his first-year premedical courses...
Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman rose to make a motion eliminating the current bypasses given for science Core courses for Advanced Placement test credit, but withdrew it after a short speech...
Students strongly and unanimously opposed ending Core exemptions based on high Advanced Placement (AP) test scores...
...wanted to bring it to the Faculty's attention so it would be studied," Feldman said, noting that while the sciences allow Advanced Placement bypasses, the same is not true in other disciplines. For instance, Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" cannot be bypassed with the economics exam...