<p>How important are AP Exams for the Ivy Athletic Recruiting process. Are 3s and 4s considered acceptable scores, or is it imperative to get 5s on all exams taken?</p>
<p>Short answer - no, 5s on AP exams are not mandatory to be recruited as an Ivy athlete.</p>
<p>Slightly longer answer - no, AP scores have little bearing on admissions, athlete or not. AP scores are optionally self reported for admissions; official scores follow only after acceptance.</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies. I am a Sophomore in high school who is taking 2 APs in a little less than 3 weeks. I am afraid that I might get either a 3 or 4 on both of them. Would it be worth it to even send both scores to admissions? If I do, will it hurt my chances?</p>
<p>Before you spend any more time worrying about this, why don’t you wait to see how you actually do on the AP tests, keep your grades up, prep for and take the ACT/SAT next year, see if you are actually going to be recruited by an Ivy, keep in mind the responses above (i.e., that AP tests are not part of the Academic Index)… Then revisit your question in a year with the input of the coaches that are recruiting you and want you to get admitted.</p>
<p>I’ve mostly thought of AP’s as substantiation of the rigor of coursework at a particular school. a 4 or 5 would tell admissions that your class was not AP in name only, and that your A or B in the class was not inflated.</p>
<p>Nadal</p>
<p>The evaluation of an Ivy League recruit academic performance is based on the Academic Index. The Academic Index calculation is based on 1/3 GPA, 1/3 SAT or ACT, and 1/3 SAT II scores. AP exam scores are not used in the calculation of the Academic Index and therefore do not play a significant role in the recruitment process.</p>
<p>When people say that AI is how students are evaluated, that is not fully correct, is it? While I understand that students have to meet a certain AI to be recruitable, as I understand it, a high AI is not a guarantee of admission. The student still needs to got through a full evaluation by the admissions office, right? At that point the AP’s might become more significant as a factor in the overall admit process.</p>
<p>^ You’re correct that the AI is not the final word as far as athletic admissions in the Ivy League. The entire application - course rigor, essays, recs, etc is evaluated by admissions. But as Sherpa said, AP test scores are optionally self-reported prior to the decision date. If your GPA is strong and you have AP classes on your transcript, I wouldn’t lose any sleep over the AP exam scores.</p>
<p>Usually the evaluation of an athletic recruit by an Ivy League school occurs in several stages. In the first stage the coach evaluates the recruits athletic performance, ACT and SAT test scores, and GPA. The coach will then select recruits to go through an academic pre-read by the admission committee. At this point official transcripts and ACT and SAT test scores will be evaluated. The admissions committee will then tell the coach if a recruit will have a good chance of being admitted but will not guarantee admission. The coach will then draw up a list of athlete that he wants to fully support in the admission process. The coach is allowed a certain number of athletes for this and each recruit must meet a floor AI and the average AI for the team must exceed a certain number. The athletes application will then be fully evaluated by the admission committee. At this point the athlete may decide to self AP test scores. Most, but not all athletes from the coaches list are then accepted. Deviations from this process can occur </p>
<p>^ …self report AP test scores.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t admission expect AP test scores if AP classes were on the transcript–if nothing else, to validate the rigor of the class and the student’s grade in it? I can certainly see choosing to not report if the student self-studied for an AP test, but it seems like getting, say, an A in AP calc and then not sending the test score would send up a red flag.</p>