<p>So I EDed to CAS this morning, and I just thought about AP scores. Should I officially send them in as part of the application process or should I wait until I get accepted to a college and then send them in? Does it make a difference?</p>
<p>I was about to post this exact same question! Does anyone have insights?</p>
<p>I doubt much weight, if any, is put on AP scores for admission purposes. As such, self reporting scores on common app is just fine; if you are seeking credit, then sending AP scores after an acceptance still will work.</p>
<p>If you did well it can only help you right? Why over think it?</p>
<p>Babolat, why would you think that AP scores would not weigh much toward admission’s decisions?</p>
<p>Since AP class test scores are additional standardized testing + show ability along with subject knowledge (and offer the possibility of free college credits or possibily allow for bumping a student up to a higher course level), I’d think that they’re absolutely part of the decision process.</p>
<p>Not that I’m an admissions rep, but logically I’d think they’d be influenced as follows:</p>
<p>—AP classes but no scores: Hmmm…why wouldn’t the student have taken the tests following the AP classes, or at least told me about their scores? Wouldn’t they want to try for college credit? They probably did take the AP test(s) and scored a 3 or less, so don’t want to show it to me.</p>
<p>—AP classes taken and tests taken; made rep aware of scores: Student has nothing to hide; student is showing rep yet another positive.</p>
<p>To play a bit of devil’s advocate on your above comment, what if you sent in six AP scores and they were all “1’s”? That would certainly affect you in a negative way, so why wouldn’t high scores affect you positively? And why wouldn’t coming across as hiding your scores by not reporting them, when the admissions rep can see that you took 6 AP courses?</p>
<p>When they’re only accepting appx 1 out of 12 stellar applicants (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Wharton), or 1 out of 8 stellar applicants at other highly selectively colleges, the admission’s office is looking for anything to separate the cream from the milk. I’m thinking that hiding AP scores could be one of those possible separating factors.</p>
<p>You don’t have to send in official AP scores until you’re accepted. You report them unofficially on the common app and that’s enough. Colleges use it before the registration to see which course credits you will get.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean that AP tests altogether don’t matter period, lvy colleges just don’t look too deep into them; this is straight from an admissions rep who came to our school. Of course getting a 1 will look bad, but whatever is self reported is fine; there is no reason to send scores in officially.</p>
<p>Penn doesn’t require official AP scores unless you plan to use them as credits. If not, you don’t have to submit them even after you’re accepted.</p>