When you report your AP scores to colleges, will the admissions officers be able to see in which year you took each AP? I’ve looked around for an answer to this but couldn’t find it anywhere.
And if colleges are able to see this information, will they hold it against you if you retake an AP exam (i.e. the year you took the course and the exam year you reported doesn’t match up)?
From the current AP website:
If the date taken is more than four years ago, you will need to take further action, as it will not be visible to them.
"Does my score report show my scores for all the AP Exams I’ve ever taken?
Yes. Your score report includes all your AP scores from any exams you’ve taken in the past. If your most recent AP Exam was over four years ago, your AP scores are no longer viewable in our score reporting system. They have been archived and can only be sent to a college, university, or scholarship program through a request made via mail or fax."
From an old post (2016) at collegevine:
“After your exam is scored, the College Board will automatically send your score report to the college or university that you designated on your answer sheet, free of charge. This score report is cumulative so it will include not only your most recent AP exam, but also scores for every other AP exam you have taken, unless you’ve specifically cancelled or withheld a score. This is the same score report that is visible to you online through your College Board account.”
Are you asking if the score report will suppress an exam and date which you have chosen to not submit?
Well, your transcript will tell the college which year you took the class, and the score report will tell them when you took the test. They can match it up that way, if they are so inclined. Will it matter? Probably not. A lot of colleges let you self-report the AP score and submit the official score after you enroll.
When you are applying to colleges and universities, most will ask for you to self-report your score as well as the date on which it was taken.
Where it is not used as part of the admissions process, and is a required element (don’t know that there are any which use it as a required element of admissions) the actual AP score report is usually not required to be sent until you have accepted an offer of admission, at which point you send the official report to verify the information you have self-reported.
(Aah. Groundwork2022 supplied this info to you already.)
you don’t have to send your AP scores