<p>OH I AM JEALOUS!
I go to a 4A public high school in Washington.
I've heard many schools pay all or part of AP costs. I really wish that happened at our school. I took 3 this year and paid 246 dollares to take them all!!!!! The only people who get a discount are those on free or reduced lunch. Same thing with my IB exams, but those are like $125 a pop! So, I really approve and appreciate the whole subsidizing the cost of the exam thing. However, I think paying students to pass is just plain wrong. It doesn't seem ethical!</p>
<p>my school has a lot of low income kids including mysell so each AP test was only 5$....some didnt even pay for theirs...but we dont get money for passing them...just a pet on the back lol
but the thing is when it is free, some students don't take the tests seriously because they didn't have to pay for it with their own money so yep .. that excludes the students who actually want to do well whether or not they paid for it</p>