<p>Is being named an AP scholar with distinction a recognition worth putting on college apps to ivies? How respectable is being an AP scholar with distinction? Thanks!</p>
<p>Almost everyone will have this or a National AP Scholar so it wont help you but I’d say you put it on there to show you atleast belong</p>
<p>“Almost everyone will have it” - definitely not even close to true. </p>
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<p>At Ivies yes unless their school didn’t offer it</p>
<p>Ok thanks. Does it only merit being mentioned if you make AP National Scholar or something, or is Distinction good enough as well?</p>
<p>that one mention alone will not mean much - it really is one little piece of all the information you provide. Ifyou took the highest level of rigor your school allowed and you did well on your AP exams that is definitely something to share on your application. If your school did not offer enough AP classes to merit an honor, that is something your guidance coulnselor should explain. If you took AP classes but did not score highly, then you should have other passions or strenghts to highlight. You will not get accepted or rejected based on this specific achievement.</p>
<p>Egelloc80, you are incorrect. To be a National AP Scholar you need to have taken at least 8 AP exams. This is not the norm, even for many Ivy applicants. What you see on CC is not what is normal in the real world. I’d peg the average number of AP’s for a typical Ivy League applicant at 2-4.</p>
<p>^If you want to be practical about it, Columbia doesn’t even let you use more than 5-6 APs for credit, so they’re really isn’t much value in taking 20 AP courses compared to, say, 6. Not all APs are equal in terms of difficulty, either. Taking 10 APs in things like Human Geography won’t make as much of an impact as, for example, a couple of 5s in Chem and Bio, plus 100 hours of lab research and being president of your school’s medicine society. Admissions officers are people too, and how you tell/spin your story can prove to be just as important as the raw statistics.</p>
<p>In general, quality over quantity (although if you have both, even better). I took 2 APs, and two others from my school that got into Columbia took 2 and 4 each.</p>
<p>Hobbesette, it is a nice recognition to put under your academic recognitions. Use it.</p>
<p>I am going to put it on there, but I know on the UF honors college website, it says:</p>
<p>Choose the honors/awards you list on the resume portion carefully. Please tell us meaningful awards and honors that you’ve received. For example, success in academic, athletic, or artistic competitions carries more weight than being the (pick your favorite subject) Student of the Year. Please do not tell us that you are an AP Scholar with Distinction–at least 2/3 of our applicants can say that. Do not list book awards (e.g., the Harvard book award). You also do not need to tell us that you are in the National Honor Society, unless you held a leadership position (see next comment). In short, you should list those honors which really make you stand out.</p>
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I would still put that down. If nobody put it down on the resume, how does it know that 2/3 of its applicants earned the award?</p>
<p>The whole AP Scholar system is just a ploy to get more students hooked onto College Board’s testing series.</p>