<p>Ok...I took 3 APs this year... ()= grade</p>
<p>US History (A) - 5
US Gov/Politics (A-) - 5
Spanish (A-) - 2</p>
<p>I have good SAT scores (1550/2310), as well as good grades and ECs, so I am planning on applying to top schools such as Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, UPenn, and Princeton. What should I do about my Spanish grade, and what effect will it have on my application?</p>
<p>ap scores dont affect ur chances (for the millionth time)
yeah they might suspect grade inflation but thats about it</p>
<p>if you withhold the Spainish grade, it may not look so good if you took AP Spainish class and not the exam.</p>
<p>are those the only 3 AP's you've taken throughout high school?</p>
<p>congrats on the two 5's, by the way ;)</p>
<p>Yes, I took 3 this year and will take 3 next year. I go to a small, non AP-oriented prep school. I will have taken as many as I can. So...I should just report the 2? I know that officially AP scores don't matter, but I have heard that for selective colleges they do use them. That is why I am asking what to do.</p>
<p>You do not need to send in official records of your AP scores AT ALL. Period. I applied to HYPMSC and none of them asked to see my official record.</p>
<p>You self-report your AP scores on the application. I guess you can just not write it, but perhaps they'll wonder about what happened in AP Spanish. It's not going to make or break your application - so if you don't feel comfortable reporting it, then you don't have to.</p>
<p>Then again, if you do, it does show you are a person and that you're not perfect. In a weird way, that can actually help, and draw more attention to your application than those that just have lists of 5s. It has the potential to help you or harm you, basically.</p>
<p>Yeah, my eyes are more drawn onto people with different numbered scores on this forum. I tend to skip over long lists of 5's, and there are plenty of them. Don't worry about your AP score in Spanish (languages are always harsh scorers). You'll be worrying about plenty of other stuff this year, so drop that one care.</p>
<p>The language tests are not geared towards those who are not native speakers. The Spanish test is perhaps the most unforgiving for non-native speakers, since many people who take it speak the language natively. As a result, those of us who do not speak the language natively have to work that much harder, whereas for native speakers, it's as easy as if you were to give many of us a test on normal grammatical structures and vocabulary in English. You're curved against people who could reasonably get 100% correct on the exam.</p>