hahaha...that's a good one
I've said it before, I'll say it again - API DOESN'T MEAN/COUNT FOR ANYTHING (if it's even part of your NSS -very debateable and according to cnatra's scoring sop, it doesn't appear to- its a very miniscule amount). The people who cling to that "API means this and this and is 30% of your NSS" are those stash clowns who haven't even gone through API or were rolled for one reason or another and just because they polish a stool by the door of the NASCC building, they think they are the be-all-end-all of flight training gouge just because they heard something from some NASCC LT. /run-on
API is like the ASTB, it's designed as a predictor of future performance. The ASTB is supposed to be an indicator how your success at API - API is designed to predict how you'll do at primary and to prepare you for the basic academics of the pipeline.
With the number of pilot slots declining, and the number of FO slots semmingly increasing, I'm curious to know what the originator of that gouge was smoking at the time.