Advanced Placement: Calif. schools rate near top

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

In your face, Ohio. Eat our dust, Delaware.

California schools placed among the best in the country when it comes to students passing Advanced Placement tests, one of the few education rankings in which the state doesn't sit at the bottom of the barrel with Mississippi, according to a national report released Wednesday.

Almost a quarter of the state's high school Class of 2010 passed at least one Advanced Placement test before graduation, according to the nonprofit CollegeBoard, which oversees the Advanced Placement Program.

Only five states topped California's pass rate of 22.3 percent: Maryland, New York, Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/10/BA301HKS49.DTL

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As a college student who's taken and passed several AP classes in high school, I say that this is great news for my state. Original report here.

[nyy1998]

1. Nice, I'm a recently graduated college student, my AP credits really made my senior year enjoyable

since I was able to underload and still double major.