<p>Do we just write in our ap grades for college applications (i.e. common, college online, etc.), or do we have to pay (if we didn't select the free four or whatever) to send a report in fall to each college? I heard that you write the grades, and at the end of the senior year, your entire ap report is sent to the college. is this standard procedure? thanks!</p>
<p>p.s. I'd rather see how I do on the exams before i send my scores, so i have an opportunity to cancel bad ones.</p>
<p>You can self-report the scores on your application rather than send an official report. I believe that you will have to pay to send the report to the school you ultimately want to see your official score report. I don't think that you can "cancel bad scores" after you see them.</p>
<p>first off, reporting AP scores is optional. and no, you don't need an official report to each college you apply to. however, if a college sees that you lied about scores, they DO have the right to kick you out of their school. if you report a 4 instead of a 3 it probably won't hurt (probably!) but if you report a 5 instead of a 1/2 they could very well kick you out.</p>
<p>can anyone support or argue against dotmom's statement "that you can't cancel bad scores after you see them". I was under the impression you could (ex: Junior year) and your senior grade report would not have that grade you deleted. someone plz confirm this!</p>
<p>yeah, you can cancel them after you see them. from the college board ap bulletin: you have to cancel "by june 15th if you do not want the grade to appear on this year's grade report". so you can still cancel the grade after you see it, but it will already be on the grade report for the current year.</p>
<p>and by current year, you mean beginning the fall after the ap exam? I was hoping to see how I'd do on the ap physics exam, and if the score was bad, that I'd delete it (I'm a junior). What I'm pondering about is whether that grade will remain (btw, I won't be putting any college to send to this year) on the record when I want to do a personal request to send it to the colleges I will be applying to (if I have to? i think you guys have said that you just write them in). </p>
<p>And if i just write it in, and i've told college board to delete it, then can I leave that score out on my application to colleges? since the next score report (at end of senior year) will not have that score anyway? thanks!</p>
<p>we get the scores in july, and they are also sent out to whatever colleges we select, so i think that "current year" means when you take the ap test. so yeah, if you take physics and end up getting a 1, you can just delete it after you see it and no colleges will see it because you never sent it to them. i am pretty sure it will not appear anywhere after you delete it from your record.</p>
<p>You can strike a score at any time, even after the june 15th deadline, but there will be a note on your score report that will say, "score stricken" or something like that, which could look suspicious.</p>
<p>You guys say that sending AP scores is optional, which I believe, but...</p>
<p>Won't it look bad to take an AP class and not have the test score sent? Would colleges look down on that at all? Is not sending your scores as part of your application standard procedure or do most people do it?</p>
<p>Here is my opinion on how colleges think. First off, you got an A in an AP class, good job (or a B, that acceptable but not amazing). The scores are there to confirm your college credit - as in you know what THEY teach in Subject 101 that you are getting credit for.</p>
<p>However, almost EVERY good college has a strict and self-regulating honor code. If you misreport your scores, you are screwed, because...</p>
<ol>
<li><p>You don't get in anyway. So misreporting is useless and you lied for no reason.</p></li>
<li><p>You get in. They see your scores once you send the official transcript. Then you are screwed because they WILL take away admission immediately - you have effectively "cheated" and no decent college accepts ANY lack of academic intregrity.</p></li>
<li><p>You get in and don't send in scores. College is confused and will look into it...They ask the CollegeBoard, you get caught and kicked out. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>So don't do it, there is NO possible way it could help you.</p>
<p>If you strike it, and you REPORTED it, they will call you out for lying on the app. So striking won't help you either. Remember you signed the thing that said be HONEST at the end of the app, go by that and you will be much better off.</p>
<p>Well,if you self-study then there's no way they can deduce what subject you striked because the subject doesn't appear on your report cards (well at least not on mine). </p>
<p>Also, what if you got a 4 and are applying to HYPS, can't you just leave it out. When they eventually see your score I wouldn't think its that much of a problem. Feel free correct me if I'm wrong or anything.</p>
<p>yeah, but how is striking a bad score dishonesty? It's not like I'm giving them a fake score, or saying I did it really well.</p>
<p>yeah, i dont get that either.</p>
<p>yea, doh!, I think youve got the process wrong.</p>
<p>Not submitting your AP scores is completely different from not sending grades. </p>
<p>I dont think there are any reprocussions for not sending scores, unless you say on the application, if it asks, that youve gotten a 4, when you really got a 2, which is not what we are saying here.</p>