[quote=walterwhite]Well ok Maybe API scores matter a tiny bit but only if they’re real low. As long as they’re reasonable it doesn’t matter.[/quote]
It’s not so much that higher API score will make your kids smarter. But the school with higher scores means there are more kids with scored better (hence the average API score is higher). The more students who do well, will mean more demand for AP classes. More demand for AP classes = more AP classes available. Then there’s also the analogy I’ve used, which is comparing schooling/competition to running a marathon. If you’re a big fish in a small pond, you tend to not be as prepared for the kind of competition you have to deal with at the University level. If you go to top rated school (doesn’t have to be the top but schools that in the mid 800s API would do), you’ll be prepared to deal with those kind of competition, since you’ve been dealing with it through out primary schools.
