I read with interest the Opinion piece in the Jan. 29 edition of the Chronicle entitled “A-P(ushed) The Wrong Way” and would like to clear up a few misconceptions and offer a different perspective.
The...
Seventy seniors received a GPA of 4.25 or above, the highest number of students to qualify for this grade bracket in the past decade.
The number of students in this group of the graduating class of 2019...
The Washington Post ranked Harvard-Westlake the 91st most challenging high school in the country in its annual Challenge Index on May 5, which is based on Advanced Placement courses.
The list is compiled...
The deans will enact a new admissions policy starting with the class of 2018 where Single-Choice Early Action applications to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford will be treated as Early Decision applications.
Under...
As the May 6 national deadline nears, Advanced Placement Studio Art students are working to complete portfolios that will demonstrate their breadth, concentration and quality as artists.
While students...
The College Board was delayed in sending many seniors’ SAT, SAT Subject Test, and AP exam scores to colleges by Nov. 1, the early application deadline of most colleges, causing extra stress during the...
The 2016 March of the Living trip to Poland and Israel, taking place from May 1 to May 15, will conflict with all AP exams as well as the prom.
Students will be allowed to make up their exams during the...
Everyone told me that junior year would suck — and I believed it. From having English and history essays due on the same day to simply not having enough time to sleep, I, like many others, focused on...
Sophomores are attending a series of 10 supplemental history classes that will cover both additional content and test-taking skills that the World and Europe II course does not teach, to prepare the students...
Justin Rose ’17 was one of 12 students in the world to receive a perfect score on the 2014 AP Computer Science Exam.
Rose was one of two freshmen from Harvard-Westlake to take the exam last year. To...
The English department will replace AP Literature and AP Language with six English electives for seniors next year.
“Students still will choose first between AP Lit and AP Lang—distinct studies, the...
In all of the college information sessions and discussions about college, Riya Garg ’15 finds one constant theme: The number of Advanced Placement classes and rigor of a schedule is always a main focus....
