Advanced Placement - Glacier Peak High School
Advance Placement
The Advanced Placement (AP) Program of The College Board enables students to complete college level studies at Glacier Peak High School. The "academic bridge" helps smooth the transition from high school to college. The primary goals of the AP Program are to enrich the secondary school experience of students ready to apply themselves to college level courses and to provide the means by which colleges may grant credit or placement, or both, to students with satisfactory AP test scores.
For a link to the parent brochure offered by The College Board click here
Enrolling in AP
Glacier Peak offers a large range of AP courses for their students. Students entering high school need to plan with their counselors to insure that all prerequisite courses are scheduled early enough to allow them to take the AP course of their choice at the senior high level. Most AP courses are offered at the junior and senior level.
GPHS offer the following AP courses:
Studio Art
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Biology
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Physics (2009-10)
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Environmental Science(09-10)
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English Literature (2009-10)
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English Lang (2009-10)
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Statistics (2009-10)
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U.S. History
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Calculus
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Chemistry
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Spanish
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Advanced Placement Program? The AP Program is open to any secondary school willing to offer AP Courses (to all students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous curriculum), administer the AP Exams, and foster teacher development. Each fall, schools register for participation by obtaining a school code (if the school does not already have one) and submitting the AP Participation Form and Teacher Listing to the AP Program. The College Board® Advanced Placement Program offers 35 courses in 19 disciplines.
How many colleges accept AP grades? More than 90 percent of the colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, as well as colleges and universities in 20 other countries, have a policy granting incoming students credit, placement, or both, for qualifying AP Exam grades. The best source of specific and up-to-date information about an individual institution's policy is its catalog or Web site.
How many schools and students participate in the AP Program? Nearly 60 percent of U.S. high schools -- approximately 14,000 in 2001 -- participate in the AP Program. In that same year, more than 840,000 students took 1.4 million AP Exams.
Why Take Advanced Placement Courses?
¨ 90% of students who take AP courses rank those experiences as the most valuable of their high school studies
¨ AP courses and AP examinations are the equivalent of college courses and examinations. Success on a single AP exam (scores of 3,4,or 5) may mean credit for a college course.
¨ 66% of students nationwide who take AP exams earn a 3 or better.
¨ 82% of college admissions officers rated “courses selected” as the most important criterion in admission decisions. It was not class rank, or GPA, or SAT scores, it was the course of study elected by the candidate.
¨ A recent Department of Education report (Adelman) found that the best indicator of success in college is the rigor of classes taken in high school
¨ Financial need should not prevent a student from taking AP exams. Between the College Board, state and federal programs, and local resources, we will do our best to provide financial assistance to students who are committed to the AP tests.
¨ For more information about Advanced Placement: http://www.collegeboard.org/ap or http://www.k12.wa.us/ap