I don't understand why you aren't getting more upvotes for this. AP exams are no indication of a bubble at all. I took as many AP exams as I thought I could pas

I don't understand why you aren't getting more upvotes for this. AP exams are no indication of a bubble at all. I took as many AP exams as I thought I could pass - a bunch of them I didn't even take the class for I just bought a review book and passed them on my own. If you have a choice between 40-100 hours of hard studying, $30 for a review book, and $90 for the AP exam vs 4 months of work and $3,000 in tuiton what rational person would NOT take a bunch of AP exams? The thing the article misses is that the number of tests taken is not really correlated to the number of people taking tests. Maybe 20 years ago people only took what they were good at, I took a dozen AP exams in subjects I couldn't care less about becuase then I avoided taking those in college. Plenty of other people did the same. I am one of the people inflating the number of AP exams arbitrarily. That has nothing to do with me thinking a lot of people in college are not getting their money's worth in their education. The bubble is the cost of tuition vs the payoff afterwards.