A Quick Question Regarding Admissions to University of Toronto

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<p>Hello CC. This is my first post onto the forums, and I'm still getting used to this site, so I apologize in advance if I am, in a sense, beating a dead horse with this question.</p>

<p>Nevertheless, I was checking out the Admissions page for University of Toronto's Faculty of Engineering, more specifically their international admissions requirements for students under the U.S. curricula. </p>

<p>Something bothered me about the SAT II/AP Exam score requirement.</p>

<p>I should start off by saying that according to U of T's admissions, Senior level Calculus, Chemistry, and Physics are required. This is not a problem for me, as I am a junior in high school now and will be taking AP Chem and AP Physics next year, in accordance to Pre-Calculus. However as far as the specific requirements go, it is stated that at least 3 SAT Subject Tests are required, and should include Math, Chemistry, and Physics. AP Exam scores can be sent to them in lieu of this, I know. Thus brings forth my question.</p>

<p>I know that I can simply take the SAT II for Math and be done with it, but I were to take AP Chem and AP Physics next year, how would I be able to send them my AP Exam scores? The deadline for such documents are usually in February, I've noticed. But we don't take the actual AP Exam for any AP class until the spring, usually late March to early April. </p>

<p>I'm worried that if I do take these exams, they will be obsolete in the sense that I wont be able to send them to the school since the deadline will have passed. That would also mean that my application would be incomplete, which, needless to say, is bad.</p>

<p>I emailed the admissions office regarding this same question, but it might be weeks before they can reply. In turn, I wanted to see what everyone else thinks of this, and whether someone out there can conjure up a good answer.</p>

<p>Thanks, and Happy New Year everybody!</p>

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<p>You are correct, you cannot send AP exam scores for classes you took sr year as you don’t take it until May and the scores aren’t reported until July, long after the application process is completed. Thus, only AP scores taken earlier (eg. soph & jr year) can be submitted. </p>

<p>In order to fulfill UToronto’s testing requirement, you’d have to send Subject tests instead. Of course if the Subject test are best taken at the end of taking AP courses too, so that’s a problem, you’d have to self-study a lot of the material in order to do well and take the Subject tests in time for a Feb deadline.</p>

<p>Note: There is a UToronto forum (under Alphabetic list of colleges) and it is best to post college-specific questions on the individual college forums. However, that forum doesn’t get much traffic, so I will leave your thread here. In the future, you can always ask your questions in a more general fashion and post on this forum (eg. Feb testing deadline, but what about submitting AP test scores?)</p>