June 21, 2002

California May Ban Extra Points for AP Courses

By RICHARD MORGAN

California's public universities would no longer let applicants use grade-point averages that give extra weight to honors or Advanced Placement courses, under a legislative proposal for a new state master plan for education. Proponents of the proposal say the move will help improve the quality of all high-school courses, while critics see it as a misguided effort to increase the enrollment of minority students who do not, on average, take as many honors and AP courses as other students

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