<p>My D said her score notification indicated all 5 tests she’s taken (2 soph year, 3 jr year) but she still hasn’t received anything from AP people. I realize it’s all meaningless in the grand scheme of things since the schools will all see the scores anyway, but it would still be nice to have another thing to put in academic rewards.</p>
<p>I believe that pupster arrives around the end of August or early September…</p>
<p>sujormik - not everyone has received notifications yet. If her score card indicated all her scores so far, the award will show up.</p>
<p><<redfaced>> Thanks tex!</redfaced></p>
<p>Application season takes its toll on students and parents alike. ;-)</p>
<p>Hi all, just wanted to tell you it looks like the award thing arrived today (addressed to her of course) and thank you all for your patience with me! We have such a competitive school that she doesn’t have a lot of awards/honors so every little bit helps! Wish we could list the junior high awards LOL. JK</p>
<p>This thread raised a question for me - say you have a college student who did well in hs - and has a top level AP award - would you not suggest he list it on his resume under his high school achievements? I agree that once student has graduated from college and has more work experience to flesh out the resume - it would be dropped - but while in college - wouldn’t you still list things like AP National Scholar on the resume?</p>
<p>May be for the first year or so if one is applying for summer positions?</p>
<p>AP Scholar awards are basically meaningless on a college application. For instance, if the college sees that you got 4s on five exams, they’ll know that you must be a AP Scholar with Distinction. Listing it just wastes application space.</p>
<p>Why bother listing anything. One can turn in a blank application!</p>
<p>I just opened D’s – since she’s already at college, I don’t think it will help her in any way. But it’s nice to know the College Board still cares…</p>
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<p>Well, a cynical person might say that the College Board wants to create incentives for people to take as many AP tests as possible. The proliferation of AP tests of marginal value in getting university credit means that getting something like AP State Scholar means taking a rather large number of AP tests (and spending time self-studying them instead of studying core academic subjects or exploring areas of possible interest for major selection once the student gets to university), many of which are likely to be useless for credit at a university.</p>
<p>Yep…the AP Scholar with Distinction came in the mail here today too. So I threw it in the binder with all the other certificates, bit at this stage of the game – with his first official college classes starting tomorrow – its a big “so what”? </p>
<p>Nice…but that sheet of paper and 3.25 will get me or him a small coffee at Starbucks. But not both of us. ;-)</p>
<p>I agree. My kids’ came today as well. Waste of trees at this point.</p>
<p>It doesn’t mean much beyond a resume “bullet point”, as most college admissions are smart enough to add up the AP scores and the number of tests your student took themselves. I think it is more of a marketing thing for AP than anything else.</p>
<p>Well my D is a senior so it’s a line on an application that she can fill in instead of leaving blank, that’s good enough for me.</p>
<p>You don’t get the certificate for the number of tests you took. You get it for scores as well and most colleges don’t ask for scores or see them until after you are in, so it is nice to be able to put it down on a college app. It does say something to schools – that you not only challenged yourself, but did well on a difficult exam. After the senior year, it doesn’t matter much, but after the junior year it is something that belongs on a college app.</p>
<p>same here. my son has two AP numberrs, and one has the wrong DOB, and he received the wrong distinction. Just called AP, and they said they would correct the problem, merge the two files, and he should receive the correct designation. </p>
<p>Hope it happens before we start sending out transcripts to colleges for applications.</p>
<p>D qualifies-but no cert yet</p>
<p>The easiest way for US to have S’s accounts merged was asking the HS GC to help. He had a phone number that only HS GCs had that he called & was able to get S’s accounts merged into ONE account. When I had called & tried to do it, they said it was impossible. Magically, they were willing to work with the GC & didn’t give him any grief. Go figure!</p>