<p>AP trademark designation is expensive for schools to comply with and full of paperwork. Colleges know the quality of the better boarding school curricula and it is usually at an equal level. </p>
<p>For example, Deerfield dropped AP English a couple of years ago. Now their catalog states: “Regardless of their section, many students take and perform well on the AP English Literature and AP English Language Composition examinations at the end of the junior year.”</p>
<p>Mid-level BS use large AP offerings as a tool to compete with publics for students.</p>