AP dilemma

Transfer Students
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<p>I live in Canada and I am applying as a fall 2013 transfer to some US colleges. A little more than a week ago, my former high school guidance counsellor filled out the Common App "Secondary School Report". The problem is that she was not exactly truthful about the high school's AP system, and she omitted crucial information. All she wrote is that the school offers 7 AP courses. The school doesn't actually offer any AP courses though; all it means is that you will be taught the provincial curriculum like everyone else, and the teacher might throw some (generally useless) AP packages at you and say "learn this on your own". Now, I actually took six out of the seven "AP" classes, but there is no record of this on my high school transcript. I did write three AP exams, but because they were self study I didn't do so well. I ended up with a 4 in English Literature, 5 in Calculus AB, and 3 in European History. I'm not including the European History score on Common App because I didn't take the class, and my studying consisted of skimming through a 200 page prep book. </p>

<p>As for the dilemma, what should I do: leave it alone, or inform the colleges somehow? They will think that I only took two AP classes when there were no AP classes to begin with, and I actually signed up for all but one of them.</p>

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<p>Can anyone offer advice? This is a real problem IMO</p>

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<p>the best solution will be to have ur GC change it and inform the colleges…</p>

<p>if not then you can write an explanation and send it to the unis…</p>

<p>actually ur not supposed to knw wht the GC wrote soo u will have to say that the school usually fills the form with this info (7aps) but in reality the situation is as follows…</p>

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<p>If you’re transferring after 2 years of college, the high school work becomes less important.</p>

<p>However, you should ask College Board to send your AP score report to the school that you’ll transfer to; so that you could some credits for you AP work.</p>