I'm a high school senior and I've taken a total of 13 A.P courses over my high school career (including my current senior year classes) ranging from things like European history to Physics C mechanics and Calculus B.C . honestly even though AP courses are "college level" they still lean towards a high school format class where most your grade depends on work and you can still pass the class with a B even by failing most tests. (the exceptions from the 13 courses I've taken are Calculus AB/BC and Physics C.)

I point this out just for the sake of showing that even AP classes can be seen as somewhat of a mediocre preparation for college and may not necessarily push students as far as you may think they do to argue the point you made.

It's to the point that students take AP courses, spend the year copying work, failing exams, getting the final grade they want, and ending the course with very little new knowledge gained over the span of the entire year. (this is reflected in the AP exam passing rates for these classes)

this does not resemble a college environment in the least, where the goal is not to fake that you've learned by copying each other but rather to actually learn the material because the only way you're passing is if you can prove you know what you're doing on the tests. Not to mention it would be a waste of a college education to graduate with a barely elevated knowledge base from what you came in with.

(I also have a personal thing against this system because making the workload such a deciding factor for grades has significantly affected my GPA. in more extreme cases such as A.P Government i got a C one quarter and a D the other ((it was a one semester class, and those grades average to a C luckily)) but I got a 5 on the AP exam, while other students got their A's just by doing their work and completely failed the AP test)

(((and yes i know that's my own fault for not getting off my ass and doing the work I was supposed to do but if the ultimate goal of education is for us students to develop a strong knowledge base by learning what we are taught in class then by these standards I can confidently say I have been doing this just as well, if not better than, the other students above me in class rank, I'm 14th out of 793)))

((((I'm probably wayyyyy overusing parenthesis))))