Advanced Placement is a program of college-level classes and tests.

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"When you are looking at your final options, you want to set aside, for the time being, the emotional content and analyze things rationally, " says Anne Sturtevant, executive director of higher education at the College Board, provider of the SAT and Advanced Placement Program.

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The International Baccalaureate program is not a high school Advanced Placement (AP).

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