<p>I'm a rising junior. Just got my AP World History score back--I got a three and I'm not happy about it. Before you jump on me for being upset with a passing score, let me lay down a few things. I'm the founder and president of my school's history club, I had a 109% in the class (the highest grade), I read history books for fun, everybody would always come to me with their questions, and I studied my a** off for the f**king test. Is it possible I just got a really tough grader, and I actually should have gotten a four or five? Can I appeal my score? Is getting a mediocre score on this test going to hurt my chances at a top-tier college? I'm stressing out! Thanks.</p>
<p>its def not gonna help but hey at least its qualifying</p>
<p>I really don’t care if you are a founder of a club, had the highest grade or read history books for fun. You got a 3, it’s a passing score. Chill, you’re fine.</p>
<p>Relax. What year are you? You can ask not to show score. It is probably right.</p>
<p>^^
On the contrary, if you have a legitimate reason to suspect that your exam wasn’t scored correctly (IMO “founder of the history club” isn’t grounds for getting your test rescored but hey, its not my money) you can request a rescoring.</p>
<p>So if you have money to throw away, there’s no harm in getting it rescored. But otherwise, I wouldn’t bother.</p>
<p>Thanks. I appreciate it, and sorry for being overstressed. It’s just frustrating not being rewarded after poring myself over the work, but whatever.</p>
<p>^ No, I totally understand you 
During Sophomore year, on the last day of school we had the Chemistry final, I thought I had it down pack and went in confident. When I got my report card about 3 weeks ago, It displayed my Chemistry final result. I got a 79. I was devastated because I though I understood Chemistry lol. Also I’m signed up for AP Chemistry this fall…lol We’ll see what happens ;)</p>
<p>None of you guys are even pointing out the fact that you DON’T have to put your score down on your app, lol. It’s not going to hurt you IN THE SLIGHTEST.</p>
<p>Nah, you didn’t get a tough grader. It’s just a tough test. Only 1 out of 20 sophomores received a five, and only 1 out of 5 sophomores received a four. I believe out of the 30 or so AP tests, it is the hardest out of all of them to score well on. It’s your first AP, dude - it’s easy to overestimate how you did. Like I said: it’s your first AP, don’t expect to do perfectly. Just now you know what to expect for your future AP classes. :)</p>
<p>^ The students in my school who took AP World said they weren’t prepared for it and the test was killer. I don’t think AP World should be open for Sophomores in my opinion. I’m terrified for my first AP class, I don’t really expect anything over a 4 lol</p>
<p>First, it will not hurt your application since, as others have pointed out, you do not need to submit it to colleges. Also, since you are a rising junior, you have the option of taking the test again at the end of this year.</p>
<p>You can pay for a rescore, but this is likely only to uncover objective scoring errors, not subjective factors such as “hard graders”. A higher score is highly unlikely.</p>
<p>Finally, perhaps this would be most profitable for you if you used the experience to more accurately assess yourself and your strengths/weaknesses. Based on your post, you believe the use of profanity expresses strong emotion. However, I would suspect that most scorers would consider this an inappropriate use of language. I recognize that how you write in an online post is different from how you write an essay, but my larger point is that everyone needs to evaluate how their words impact readers differently.</p>
<p>I think the schools mainly want to see that you took rigorous courses and did well in them. They won’t really care about the score, especially if it is technically passing. Your SAT/SATIIs and GPA will speak more than this first AP test. And if most of the other elites are like Emory, they won’t even be able to accept or use AP World History credit anyway (actually, we don’t accept any histories at all unless you are a history major, in which case they may take US history or Euro with some prodding because in College, especially top ones, the intros are broken into two semesters and taught at an angle and a completely different style than AP. Admittedly, the workload is lighter because less emphasis is on content and more is on critically thinking about the occurrences. I found AP history exams very content heavy, even when accounting for free responses and DBQs).</p>
<p>Actually, I just checked our history departments website, and they really don’t take AP credit seriously at all. You can’t use it to place out of any history distribution requirements. It can only go toward credit needed to fulfill the major (ie, elective credit), in which case, it’s useless because most history majors will want to take colloqia or special topics classes for their electives and not actually want to or need to use such AP/IB credit. The only use history credit has is going toward graduation hours (need 128, and 8 hrs of history credit can go toward it, but it cannot be used to replace gen. ed requirements or anything. They are basically just in reserve for if you finish your major and GERs, yet fall short of 128, they can be used so that you can graduate).</p>
<p>lol 109% and getting a 3 on AP. The rigor of public school at its finest</p>
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<p>No. You had grade inflation.</p>
<p>Let’s not rush to conclusions. You don’t know if that’s related to grade inflation. The person could have been better at handling in-class exams than they are at handling standardized exams not specifically tailored to what and how their specific instructor is teaching. When I got to Emory, I found out from my friends that a lot of them were in classes where everyone got a 5 because the teacher taught to the test (not only this, but they also confessed to grade inflation. No one in their AP or honors classes would get below B+ for example, and many of these people went to decent private schools or good publics. A class can lack rigorous grading and have all good scores if the right things are taught. My school didn’t work that way though. AP/honors teachers happily gave low grades, and someone with a low grade could score a 4/5 if they put in the effort even though we were only sometimes taught the test itself) and not in a more holistic manner like would be seen in an actual college setting. For example, when you take a history class in college, especially an elite, it’s possible that exams will not even exist and you will instead do rigorous writing assignments or take-home exams. Even when there are exams, the instructor uses a variety of methods to convey the material effectively in a way that generate a high enough level of interest to get people to think critically about it and actually care; That’s their main goal, not to prepare the class for a huge exam. A person who makes a 109 in the course and a 3 on the exam would probably actually do well in a legit college history course where the environment is less tailored to a single big exam at the end (lots of college classes hardly give a comprehensive final, and most of the stuff on the final is what was last covered). And exams are not 3-5 hours either, and are in general, nowhere as difficult.</p>
<p>I got a 3 too, and I absolutely suck at history. This isn’t to make you feel bad, I’m trying to say that if you’re as good at history as you say you are, I don’t think you deserved a 3. Get a rescoring if you’re sure you got a 5. They could have lost your MC or something.</p>
<p>It is not unusual for someone who supposedly sucks to pass (you could have worked hard and pulled through) just as it is not that unusual for someone who enjoys a subject to slip on a test. Stuff happens. This should be treated like a very college-like experience (it’s supposedly a “college-level” class right. It is indeed college level, without it being a college class). The realization that even though you are good at, or even enjoy something, you aren’t necessarily (in fact, you just aren’t) perfect at it. I see it in difficult classes like ochem w/good professors at Emory. A student may enjoy the subject, work hard, and in theory, know the material really well, but they make a C grade on their first exam (And honestly, many students in these profs. classes will make 60s-70s on most of the tests, and still know enough to kill the MCAT organic chemistry for example, or take higher level organic classes and do well). They get over it, keep working, and learn from the experience until they do better on the exams. The OP should get over this and continue to take history/political science classes and do better on those APs now that they have experience.</p>
<p>Any class that allows a student to have a grade of 109 has a serious grade inflation problem.</p>
<p>there is no way you got a 3, as i suck at world history and had ap chem and ap stats to deal with at the same time and i got 5s on all three. Appealing your score of course couldnt hurt, and i have a friend who appealed his score and it turned out he got a 5, so id say go ahead and appeal it.</p>