Washington Post: New Teen Taunt: You Call Those Advanced Classes?

<p>"Their tit for tats might appear trifling, but students say the debates help them answer fundamental questions about their high-achieving existence: Whose life is most out of control? Which program is more impressive to colleges? Which provides the best education? Who suffers the heaviest workload?"</p>

<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012402535.html?nav=rss_print/asection%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012402535.html?nav=rss_print/asection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>"For MacGregor, the world's No. 2 on the Cambridge English language test, her program has paid off. She has been accepted to the University of Virginia, and she won a prize for her performance on the test: a gift certificate worth more than $100 for Amazon.com.
Does IB or AP offer the same for its top students? That would be a big no."</p>

<p>Whoa...a hundred dollars to amazon.com!!! Oh...my...gosh!
I only received 15 credits to college...dangit!</p>

<p>This whole argument is getting annoying. All anybody can do is take the most challenging courses that are offered, and try to do their best. My school doesn't offer IB, so I am taking AP. If it offered IB, and not AP, I would do that. Plus, some schools cannot handle carrying these classes, which makes each program seem less prestigious when taking the averages. </p>

<p>That Cambridge program does seem really interesting, but we can't compare ourselves because it is not outside the realms of Washington.</p>

<p>ap is still > than IB...just based on what the dude from gtown said</p>

<p>Haha - it's funny how the George W Bush SN was open for so long.... you're gonna get some crap...</p>