<p>It is necessary to send?
or beneficial?
Is there any influence on my application?</p>
<p>Do colleges look at it positively if it is a high score?
Should I sent it?</p>
<p>No college requires AP scores for admission. If you want to provide them for consideration in admission, you need not provide official scores from the Colllege Board but can insteead self-report the scores on your application, in your essay, or just send a photocopy of your score report to the college for inclusion in your file. Offical scores are not needed until you are admitted and want college credit.</p>
<p>A number of colleges, including most of the high ranks, will consider them as part of your entire admission file and good scores can provide some help but you should not consider them as important as any required SAT or subject test scores. However, majority of colleges do not consider them for admission.</p>
<p>For a small number of colleges there is an exception and the scores can be key factors in admission because the college takes AP scores in lieu of other tests. For example, for NYU you have the choice to submit SAT, ACT, three SAT subject tests, or three AP tests as the scores to be considered for admission and thus you can submit AP scores and no others, and if you choose that alternative they must be official scores from the College Board.</p>
<p>I’ve researched this question a fair amount when it comes to the most selective schools. Schools give APs very little weight but they will take them into account. Frankly, low scores probably hurt more than high scores help as it is a sign that you might not be able to handle college material. </p>
<p>You don’t want to send any 3s, 2s or 1s as it can indicate that your AP courses might not be as rigorous as they should be. 5s should be sent. 4s are borderline. 4s probably help at most schools but the better the school the less they help. 4s might even hurt you at HYPS.</p>
<p>If you are taking multiple APs, as most people do, then I’d recommend only sending any scores if all of them are 4s or 5s. Admissions folk are savvy and will likely assume that if you sent some AP scores but not others it’s because you did poorly on the others.</p>
<p>Again, this is focused on the most selective schools and may well not apply to schools that admit 50% or more of applicants. </p>
<p>If I already wrote my scores on the common app, is it necessary to send score reports? (For a score of 5)</p>
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No. Self-reporting is sufficient. Only send the report if you get accepted and decide to attend.
I disagree. If your transcript lists an AP course and you do not report the score, you run the risk of the admissions committee assuming one of 2 things: you were not motivated enough to take the AP test or you took the test and scored a 1. </p>
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<p>Can you share some of this research because a statement like “4s are borderline” really stands out? </p>
<p>3s or 4s at UCLA, Stanford, Berkley will get you some good credits.</p>