<p>Recently, I came across this article on my campus' school newspaper. It is about a program called REACH that motivates students to pass their AP exams using monetary incentives. What do you all think about this? Is this a good approach to encourage students to study harder for AP exams? Will this really prepare students for college and should other states follow suit?</p>
<p>well, since you go to college to make money, sure why not?</p>
<p>I think it is very good. Think of it like merit scholarships. The better you do (the more exams), the more you get.
Trend is that the people who take a lot of ap exams end up at really expensive colleges right? they need the merit aid, but merit based off the psat fails for a lot of people.</p>
<p>Well, I wouldn't benefit from it if it was in my school district, but I don't really care. I'm sure it could help, if used properly, and what somebody does with his own money is his own business.</p>
<p>That's great!! A return for the $80 I paid to take the freaking exam + all the hours spent working on it.</p>
<p>My school gives us the money back from the AP tests if we get a four or a five on them. That was really nice. :)</p>
<p>But who could argue with $1,000 for a 5? Daaaang.</p>
<p>didnt they do a report on this on the Colbert Report?</p>
<p>that would rock. </p>
<p>I would have $2,000 by now. and the opportunity to make $5,000 this year.
I wanna move to the city.
It's only 30 min away anyways.
I could do it, I think.
hahaha.</p>
<p>I would have made $9250 by now. Wow. </p>
<p>Too bad my school doesn't give me anything (and this program only applies to Hispanics and African-Americans). :(</p>
<p>I like the idea IF it was used as a form of scholarship rather than simply cash.</p>
<p>As long as there is adequate funding and other financial issues are not neglected because of this, I suppose it is pretty cool. For some reason, I still don't like the idea of being rewarded just for being successful in school. It is the same as kids being rewarded $50 for each A on their report card. I guess I can still justify it as some sort of scholarship.</p>
<p>But considering the circumstances (and the school with the 47% graduation rate) it might not have that much of an impact. I think there is a similar incentive program here for teachers though. Didn't NYC also want to do a similar program with attendance and other academic aspects?</p>
<p>...or maybe I'm just jealous because I won't be earning $x-thousand dollars in May either :/</p>