AP Capstone™ is a diploma program from the College Board. It’s based on two yearlong AP courses: AP Seminar and AP Research.
Rather than teaching subject-specific content, these courses develop students’ skills in research, analysis, evidence-based arguments, collaboration, writing, and presenting. Students who complete the two-year program can earn one of two different AP Capstone awards, which are valued by colleges across the United States and around the world
Rather than teaching subject-specific content, these courses develop students’ skills in research, analysis, evidence-based arguments, collaboration, writing, and presenting. Students who complete the two-year program can earn one of two different AP Capstone awards, which are valued by colleges across the United States and around the world
What do Universities think about AP Capstone?
“The AP Capstone program will help students to develop critical thinking skills that allow them to think independently, to analyze issues from different perspectives, to communicate clearly, and to conduct independent research. These are exactly the types of skills that they will be expected to utilize in college and the AP Capstone program will give them a terrific head start”
-Zina Evans, University of Florida
“Through this program you get students tuned in to higher education in a way they are not currently and they enter university with a different kind of attitude”
-Susan Roth, Duke University
“The ability to guide the student toward understanding where a research method is valid needs to be explicitly taught”
-Ellen Woods, Stanford University
(Collegeboard 2018)
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Stand Out in College Admission
AP Capstone candidates stand out:
AP Capstone candidates stand out:
- On college applications and essays because they demonstrate critical thinking, communication, and research skills associated with AP Capstone.
- In college interviews because of the confidence, expertise, and passion they show when they talk about their unique academic projects.
- To college admission officers, who recognize that AP Capstone students know how to build evidence-based arguments, apply research methods, work in teams, deliver professional presentations, and complete long-term academic projects
Benefits for Students:
- Fosters the research, argumentation, and communication skills that are at the core of college readiness and essential for lifelong learning.
- Develop skills in areas not traditionally taught in a high school setting, but are imperative for college success across all academic majors.
- Offers students a unique opportunity to distinguish themselves to colleges and universities.
- Builds student self-confidence as thoughtful, independent thinkers that are better prepared for the academic challenges of higher education.
- More opportunities for merit-based scholarships. Colleges like Queen's University in Charlotte offer a scholarship specifically for students who complete the AP Capstone program.
- Creates the opportunity for colleges to enroll students who are better prepared to meet the challenges that a four-year college curriculum demands
- Gives admission personnel peace of mind when they are making admission decisions with their college's retention in mind (which of these students are most likely to do well in this environment so that they can stay here all four years?) With AP Capstone, students are proving to colleges that they can handle, and are already handling, the challenge of four-year college rigor- and have experience with the two things you have to be good at to succeed in college: seminar and research.
- Helps identify students who are prepared to enter college with the research, writing, and collaboration skills necessary for successful college completion across all academic majors.
- The AP Capstone program provides consistent, externally validated measures of student ability from the same organization who created the SAT.
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