<p>I was just wondering if having an AP Scholars Award w. Honors or with Distinction has any benefit once we've already gotten into Tufts. is there any advantage like upper level placement or scholarship or anything offered? or does having an AP scholar award only really help for admissions and is basically ignored after you get into college?</p>
<p>Your AP tests themselves will give you distribution credits and allow you to skip certain intro courses, depending on what you got on them. Each department has different regulations: some will accept only a 5 to place you out of intro courses or distribution requirements, many will accept a 4, none that I know of will accept a 3 for course credit. </p>
<p>The certificate is just pretty. I’d be surprised if it even had any value for admissions beyond the value of the actual scores of your tests.</p>
<p>thanks for the response. yea, i know about the credits given for 4’s and 5’s, i was just wondering if the AP scholar award itself (maintaining above 3’s for all exams) had any benefits.</p>
<p>Must not. Unless this is new, I must have gotten this award as well (7 different AP tests and 5s on all of them) but since I don’t remember it at all, it couldn’t have been that important.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got the award and there isn’t anything special you get for it. IMO, it’s not even a meaningful award - you only need to get above a 3 on 3 exams.</p>
<p>Strikes me as similar to things like graduating with “honors”, when the only thing that determines whether or not you get honors is your GPA. You already have your GPA (and your AP scores, for that matter). You don’t really need a piece of paper affirming what you already know. Awards that are actually determined by a committee of some kind, sure, all for them. But awards that are automatic based on your past achievements don’t really add anything.</p>
<p>k so no need to cancel my ab calc score just for the award if i think i might have failed it right? lol</p>
<p>Nope. No worries.</p>