<p>quick questions my grand superiors college peeps.</p>
<p>I've noticed that on a good chuck of applications that colleges do not ask for AP exam grades. Do you feel that AP exam grades played a roll in your admission process?</p>
<p>Also if they need an AP report do they ask the students to tell collegeboard to send them the report or does the university deal with collegeboard directly and ask for the report. If it is the former about how many colleges out of the ones that you applied to asked for an AP report?</p>
<p>oh yeah i'm thinking of applying to schools such as trinity, haveford, university of north carolina at chapel hill, university of illinois at urbana champagne, university of chicago, duke, hopkins, and other similar ones.</p>
<p>if you have good AP scores, you should let colleges know that. Some high schools include AP scores on your transcript. If yours does not, then just self-report them somewhere on the app (there's usually a space where they invite you to tell them anything that didn't fit elsewhere on the app). Colleges do not need an official AP score report from College Board until you decide where you will attend. At that point, if you want AP credit, it will be your responsibility to have them sent to the college. Colleges are unable to get scores directly from CB.</p>
<p>AP scores (and how many APs you take) are taken in context of your high school. If your school offers a lot of APs they will expect you to take a lot. If APs play a small role in your school, then you won't be penalized for not having taken many. I don't think APs played a big part in my admissions-- I had only taken 1 AP, and my school doesn't have official AP classes. (I got into Princeton, Brown, Georgetown, UVa, Tufts and w/l at Columbia)</p>
<p>to add to zantedeschia's comment... my school had a little mini-report about the school, what it offers, its stats, etc that was included when they sent my transcript, so the colleges will get an idea of how to compare you to everyone else you went to school with. (I'm not sure if this is typical...?)</p>
<p>My school has that too-- the gc attaches a school profile with everyone's app. It shows the distribution of grades and describes how many APs people take, etc.</p>
<p>laurezer - that's the School Profile. I think all schools provide them. if they don't have a canned one that they include with the transcript, the counselor will have to provide all that stuff on their form, so I doubt if very many schools don't have a profile.</p>
<p>i think the ap test reported my grades to the college that i was attending. (that option is somewhere on the test) because early in my first semester of school i received a printout detailing what credit hours the school was accepting from my ap scores.</p>
<p>i don't think it really matters in the admissions decision.. when i applied to college, i omly had one ap grade.</p>
<p>when you fill out the registration stuff for your AP exams you are given the option of choosing one college to receive the scores for free. If you leave this blank because you want to wait and see your scores first, you have to contact CB and arrange to have the scores sent (and pay a fee).</p>