Am I a total failure???

Applying to College
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<p>I know this has been asked time and time again - but I just want a straight up answer.</p>

<p>I failed AP Euro last year with a 2. This year, Junior year, I'm taking APUSH and AP English and plan on preparing heavily (didn't prepare much for Euro). I am expecting 4s, at least, on both. Will this 2 kill me when I apply to colleges next year? I'm not applying to HYPS or anything like that. My colleges would be along the lines of: USC, Cornell, UC Berk, UCSD, UCSB, UC Davis, NYU, Syracuse, etc. I have been told on chances threads that I have good stats as far as GPA, SAT, ranking, extra-currics, etc. Also, I am a URM and in-state for the UCs. (YES, I know that URM status doesn't count for the UCs.)</p>

<p>Will the 2 really affect me that much?</p>

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<p>uhh…don’t report it?</p>

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<p>hah yeah dont report it. they’d rather have your money for the course anyway!</p>

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<p>Many colleges don’t even take your AP scores into consideration for admission, just placement.</p>

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<p>Colleges tend to use AP grades for placement, not for determining whether a student should be admitted. After all, a student could get a low score due to being ill, etc.</p>

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<p>You don’t have to report your AP scores.</p>

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<p>but getting a high score on the AP exam can help ,right???</p>

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<p>i got a 2, and honestly, i dont think its a big deal, u dont have to send ur AP scores</p>

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<p>yeah high scores can be impressive that you are capable of them</p>

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<p>you dont have to report that you got a 2 and they will never know!!!</p>

<p>chance me plz at
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<p>Yep. Sry dood.</p>

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<p>only a partial failure</p>

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<p>LOL, I got two 2s (comparative government and physics). Not the end of the world in the least.</p>

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<p>Right now, you’re learning to be someone who knows HOW to deal with failure. This is an admirable and valuable trait. On top of that, you don’t have to report it.</p>

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<p>I actually took a course at Harvard ext. while I was a junior in HS. It was a Java computer programming class. I felt confident given I got a B+ in the class, I decided to take the AP Computer Science A exam. I felt I got a 5 on it. It was not until later that I found out that I recieved a “no comment” or a 1 on the AP exam.</p>

<p>I was like… :frowning: Epic fail. How could that have happened? ■■■■. lol I didn’t report it.</p>

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<p>S is honors Latin student. They literally call him the latin scholar at his school. He got a 4 on the AP Vergil exam but got a 590 on the SAT II. Seriously, a 590!! He was pretty confused until his teacher told him had he swapped something latinny for something else latinny… he would have aced it. It’s all a matter of knowing the test – which he didn’t. In fact, my son didn’t study beyond the class material for any SAT II or AP test. Of course he didn’t score any perfect 800s either.</p>

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<p>I reported all my AP scores. I had six 5’s and one 3. Now, after hearing it’s not required to report all of them, I wish I hadn’t reported that 3.</p>

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<p>i got 1 in us hist o.o and i reported it, and im not even worried!</p>

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<p>high scores are helpful, but so common that they arent anymore. and it wont hurt you if you dont have any aps junior year, if its hard you you to at your school. our school only lets us do APs if we have finishedthe honours in all the subjects before, and the only way to get ahead is tons of summer school.
so i have 4 APs this year, but none last year (however i was a year ahead in chem , physics and math, and i had honours courses)</p>