<p>Is it true that highly selective colleges such as HYPSM don't hold AP scores with much regard? Do they make you report them, if yes, then they must take a pretty serious look at them right?</p>
<p>Sorry to get your hopes up, but I’m on the same boat, haha. Thought this might need a slight bump :)</p>
<p>I’ts not that they don’t think they’re important…it’s that almost every kid who applies to schools like that has multiple APs that they scored 3 or higher on. APs won’t really make you stand out as much as you think, IMO.</p>
<p>Right, but could ONE low score really kill me? I’m worried about AP Compsci.</p>
<p>I wish my school offered that -_-</p>
<p>They are pretty pointless, because you can just report the ones you did well on, and hold the bad ones. No one will report a 3 or less. People will just submit the 4s and the 5s, so among the masses of applicants, your AP scores suddenly become pretty insignificant. </p>
<p>The schools don’t MAKE you report them, it’s optional. The truth is, I think they just want to see that you took the class. The test itself isn’t a big deal, especially because the grade is so arbitrary. For example, say you get like a 93 raw score on AP Lang/Comp, that translates to 4. Get a 92? You now have a 3. See what I mean? (those are the 2009? curves I believe)</p>
<p>One low score in ANYTHING is not going to kill you. Especially not on an AP exam.</p>