<p>if you have been through the application process with your own children your opinion is muchly needed and appreciated.</p>
<p>I've noticed that on a good chunk of applications, colleges do not ask for AP exam grades and a couple of them do. Do you feel that AP exam grades played a significant role in your child's 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 your kid applied to asked for an AP report?</p>
<p>Or do you feel that colleges just kinda of look at the transcrip the grades in those ap classes and those not really bother with finding out about AP grades. (they just use those for placement for incoming freshmen and that's about it).</p>
<p>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>You should not send AP scores to colleges that the student is applying to - they should only be sent to the schools after admission.</p>
<p>You can and should list good AP scores on the application -- if the college app doeesn't ask, just find an appropriate space on the form to list them. I think my son listed them on the place for listing "honors & awards".</p>
<p>What is "good" might depend on the school. 5's definitely, 4's probably, 3's maybe - but if a college will give credit for AP's, generally I would feel it was better not to list AP scores lower than the score they require for credit. So that probably means a score of 3 would not be listed at most private schools, but would be listed at most public universities. I'm just basing that on the theory that a school's policies toward credit must reflect their view as to the value of each score.</p>
<p>My D had a few dud scores (her HS's hare-brained policy of giving AP classes to brand new inexperienced teachers could be the topic of another thread!) so she just left the test scores off the app altogether rather than listing some and not others.</p>
<p>On the common app you could use the section for "additional information."</p>
<p>No they do not. These scores have to be sent separately. Please note, however, that some HS automatically put the scores on the transcript. Our HS did this until a few years ago when there was a big stink.</p>
<p>I agree, but I think they should go in the section of the app that is labeled "college courses" - as they are considered to be college level courses.</p>
<p>I think they are pretty much expected (APs or IB) at many of the top schools. Getting 5s in the college-considered 'more difficult' APs is a nice-to-have on the app. - that list includes Calc BC and Chem. I mention those in particular because many schools will give 8 credits for each of them.</p>
<p>Think of the competition - many students on CC have 4-8 high scoring APs on their record when they apply as first semester seniors.</p>
<p>In senior year when students have already accepted admission to a particular school, they should remember to indicate their college choice on their AP test forms. If they do, their cumulative score report will be sent to their college at the same time it is sent to their HS and their home. This saves a "send my AP scores" fee later in the summer, if the student is planning to use good AP scores to place out of intro classes or into a more advanced section of a required course. (And of course each school has its own policy on AP credits, so you'll need to check before assuming anything: my son's college will not give credit for AP Chem, for instance, and will only give credit for scores of 5 on most of the few other APs they accept.)</p>