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Students who take AP courses in high school are eligible to take the corresponding AP examinations and earn college credit for scores above a minimum threshold. In 2000, Hispanics comprised 9 percent of the students who took AP examinations; minority students overall were 30 percent of those who took AP examinations.39 The number of Hispanic students taking AP examinations increased from 24 to 111 per 1,000 12th-graders between 1984 and 2000. The number of White students taking AP examinations rose from 48 in 1984 to 185 per 1,000 in 2000 and for Blacks from 9 to 53 per 1,000 (supplemental table 4.7).
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