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Class conflict: Chloe Pressley had to fight her school district to take the AP courses that got her into Yale.
ADVANCED
MISPLACEMENT
Reformers had faith that expanding access to
high school AP courses would reduce college racial
inequities. It's had the opposite effect.
By Anne Kim
I
n a year when the coronavirus pandemic threw college
admissions into chaos, 18-year-old Chloe Pressley
of Prince William County, Virginia, succeeded
beyond her wildest expectations. She got into multiple
prestigious colleges, including Caltech, the University of
Virginia, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. The University of Richmond offered her a full ride.
This fall, she's headed to Yale.
One secret to her success, she says, was a class schedule
loaded up with the College Board's Advanced Placement
courses. " I feel like AP is the only way to get to a
good college, " she told me. " It provides you with a pedestal
above other graduates. " As a senior at C. D. Hylton
High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, Pressley took five
AP classes, including AP Chemistry, AP Calculus BC, AP
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Psychology, AP Comparative Government, and AP Literature
and Composition.
But she had to fight to get this schedule.
Pressley, who is Black, attends a predominantly
Black and Latino school in suburban Washington, D.C.,
where more than 40 percent of students receive free or
reduced-price lunch (meaning their families' incomes
fall below 185% of the federal poverty line). Although
her home high school offers 18 AP classes, according to
federal civil rights data, Pressley said she did not have
the option to take AP Chemistry or other high-level
STEM classes at her school. She petitioned her counselor,
her principal, and, eventually, her local school
board member in order to attend another high school in
her district-Charles J. Colgan Sr. High-that offered
Courtesy of Chloe Pressley

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