Many high schools in the United States offer AP courses, though the College Board allows any student to take any examination regardless of participation in its respective course. In 2006, over one million students took over two million Advanced Placement examinations. These activities are funded through fees required to take the AP exams.
In addition, it supports teachers of AP courses and supports universities. It develops and maintains guidelines for the teaching of higher-level courses in various subject areas. From 1965 to 1989, Harlan Hanson was the director of the Advanced Placement Program.
The College Board, a non-profit organization based in New York City, has run the AP program since 1955. In the 1955–56 school year, it was nationally implemented in ten subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, History, French, German, Spanish, and Latin. A pilot program was run in 1952 which covered eleven disciplines. The second committee, the Committee on Admission with Advanced Standing, developed and implemented the plan to choose a curriculum. In 1952 they issued the report General Education in School and College: A Committee Report which recommended allowing high school seniors to study college-level material and to take achievement exams that allowed them to attain college credit for this work. Paul's School -and three universities- Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University.
The first study was conducted by four prep schools-the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and St. The program, which was then referred to as the "Kenyon Plan", was founded and pioneered at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, by the then-college president Gordon Chalmers.
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