<p>Has anyone been accepted to ivies, T-20 schools without submitting AP scores, i.e. not putting them on the common app? If you've bombed some of them, got less than a three, took the class, but decided not to list the score... The does the absence of scores from a test affect the app a lot?</p>
<p>I don’t know how much this will help you, but I was accepted to Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and BC without sending any AP scores. I did self report them on the Common App, though (got 3 5’s). Ultimately I don’t think the schools really pay that much attention to AP scores, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Well the val and sal only took ush and got a 3 not sure if they reported. Val got accepted to u chicago northwestern duke princeton cornell upenn dartmouth jhu and several others and the Sal got accepted the same minus princeton and dartmouth but also got accepted to rice notre dame and villanova.
But our school only offers 2 APs so thats put into play</p>
<p>What I meant was to not self report certain scores on the common app, i.e. if you took the class but did terrible on the exam for whatever reasons. Colleges do state that APs aren’t used in the admissions process unlike SAT, SAT II, etc.</p>
<p>My son struggled with this. He had a 33 ACT and good grades (3.7 UW and a 4.9 WGPA)but he did not do well on any College Board exams (including the SAT and all of his AP’s). At the time he applied, he had one 2, four 3’s and two 4’s (currently taking 5 more). That did qualify him as an AP Scholar so he listed that. Ultimately he decided to report all of the scores except the 2 (since he thought otherwise it might look like he didn’t bother to take the tests). </p>
<p>He did not apply to Ivies but was accepted at WashU, William and Mary, UF with honors invite and Northeastern and B.U. with the highest scholarships. </p>
<p>Our concern was that really bad scores would diminish the appearence of the strength of the courses he took. However, he decided it would look worse not to report. I’m not sure if it impacted the schools he was waitlisted or denied from but my guess is that the AP scores had little to do with admissions overall.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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