Hi all! We are in the NYC area and we need to register my daughter for a few AP exams that her school does not offer. She is taking the courses and prepping online. We have been told by her school and the College Board that we need to find a school that offers the courses and will register her. I have called most of the schools in NY & NJ and no one is willing to help us with this. I assume this it is due to extra health precautions. However, the College Board does not offer another solution. Does anyone have any leads? We are willing to travel out of state if needed and can provide Covid testing results. Help, I am desperate!
If these were self-study courses, then it will be difficult for another school to agree to register her for their programs.
The universities don’t recommend nor regard self-study for AP’s. Was this recommended to her?
I don’t think it is solely related to Covid. Similar situation has caused issues for homeschooled students according to threads from past years. Even a public school in the district where a child lives is not required to administer the test to a student not enrolled at the school.
She is taking online AP classes for these courses, but they do not register students for the test. In the past, students have been able to ask a local high school to order the exam for them. It is also what home schooled kids need to do, I assume.
So what do parents do? Are there specific school districts that are more open to helping? We just need someone to order the tests for us. Seems crazy that the College Board has not addressed this.
From the College Board:
"The AP Exam I want to take isn’t offered at my school. What should I do?
If your school doesn’t offer the exam you want to take, you’ll need to arrange to take the exam at a local school that does administer it.
Your first step is to search the AP Course Ledger. The AP Course Ledger is the official, up-to-date, comprehensive list of schools that have passed the AP Course Audit. You can search by country, state/province, or city to find a school where you might be able to test. After finding schools near you that offer the course or courses you want to take exams for, do an internet search for the school’s main phone number. Then call and ask to speak with the school’s AP coordinator to ask if the school is planning to allow homeschooled students to test there this year.
We recommend you do this as early in the school year as possible. Note that schools may have their own local deadlines and policies for receiving requests from outside students to test at their school–particularly this year during the ongoing pandemic—so you’ll want to give yourself as much time as possible to contact schools Updates will be made to the AP Course Ledger for 2020-21 in November, so if you still need to find possible schools, you can check the Ledger again in November to see if any schools in your area were added.
When you find an AP coordinator able to administer your AP Exam(s), they are responsible for ordering your exam materials, telling you when and where to report for the exams, and collecting the exam fees."
Are you asking for the AP Coordinator when you call various schools? They may be more open to the request than the receptionist who answers the phone. It seems more places are willing to let self-study and homeschool kids sit for straight up multiple choice exams than for, say, Computer Science Principles or AP Music Theory, which require additional submissions.
Hi, Yes, I am asking for the AP coordinator. I did not think it would be this difficult. Do you know of any schools that have helped parents in this situation? Willing to look outside of the tristate area if necessary.