<p>My son took the AP Calc AB test last year and received a five. He is doing fine in BC, but does not want to take the AP test. One of the reasons he doesn't want to take the test is that he doesn't feel the instruction has been as good this year (new teacher) and he is worried that his AB subscore might not be a 5, given that they haven't spent much time on AB curriculum, and he wonders if a less than 5 would reflect badly on him and/or cancel his AB test from last year. He also really wants to focus on his other AP tests.</p>
<p>My questions: How would not taking the AP Calc BC look to admissions (assuming that he is accepted)? If he changes his mind and takes the test and doesn't get a 5 on the AB subscore, how will that be viewed and will it affect the math credit that he could potentially receive for the 5? </p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to answer everyone's concerns. I appreciate it!</p>
<p>i don’t have the answer about the credit and subscore, but if your kid is a senior, the admissions office won’t know whether or not he is taking an exam when they accept him.</p>
<p>I would imagine that taking BC and getting a good grade would matter much more than a score on an AP Exam, those are mostly for the college credit.</p>
<p>soccerguy is correct, we do not konw whether a student takes an AP exam after they are admitted nor do we really care. We will review the final transcript to check a student’s academic performance but do not review final AP scores.</p>
<p>Your AB subscore on the BC Calc exam should not do anything to impact the AB Calc exam score but you can certainly check on that with our Registrar which is who evaluates and applies AP exam scores for enrolling students. The BC calc exam can get your student additional credit but the AB exam score of 5 is enough to get your student 3 credits in calculus.</p>
<p>Thanks for the information! April can’t come soon enough for me, although my son (thankfully) seems somewhat calm.</p>
<p>It will be here soon enough. We always caution students and families to remember that April can provide its own kind of stress. The waiting is over but then students and families have a few short weeks during which they must make an important decision and if the student receives lots of admission offers, trying to visit campuses and choose between the options can also be a bit stressful.</p>
<p>Look forward to May when hopefully it’s all said and done (unless of course students persist on waitlists).</p>
<p>Thanks, W&M. I must admit, although of course I knew that students are sometimes wait-listed, until this very moment I hadn’t considered the possibility for my son. I only really thought about accept/deny. Yikes! I may as well get used to this stress because my daughter will be a senior next year:). Your quick responses do help tremendously and I appreciate the time you take to answer our questions.</p>
<p>We do waitlist a good number of students. The small size of our class and the competitive nature of our pool means that there are a lot of students who are not admits but who deserve something more positive than deny and who are students we would love to have in our class should those who we admitted choose other institutions so waitlist is always a possibility</p>