<p>Does pton care what you got on your ap exams? will it help your acceptance? i know they ask you to report them but what is the point?</p>
<p>If you got all great scores, then they can only help you! :]</p>
<p>I'd imagine a trend of low scores doesn't look good, but if you have a few (1 or 2) low scores out of many good scores I don't think it will be a big issue.</p>
<p>Do good scores include 4s or just 5s?</p>
<p>...just 5s.</p>
<p>Yeah. I'm hoping Princeton will consider AP scores a good bit. I've one 4 and five 5's so far, about to apply. Honestly, I see AP scores as a great tool for admission, not sure why it isn't given much weight.
They say the SAT and such don't really predict collegiate success, but AP scores should to some degree.</p>
<p>yea but sometimes you take an AP class but it turns out to be a blow off where you watch movies and dont learn jack, then you get a bad score (expected) because of no prep....they shouldn't hold it against you</p>
<p>yea i agree with visionquest...it really depends on the school. i once read that half the ap teachers weren't qualified to teach the material.</p>
<p>Yeah, that's probably the main reason. Many of my AP teachers have been grossly under-qualified, and it's hard to blame the students who thought that their A in the course would translate into at least a 3 on the AP exam. I took an AP Psychology course my freshman year and did very well in the class, but received only a 3 on the test because the teacher, simply, covered none of the appropriate material. Same with a music theory exam my sophomore year. After that I learned how to properly compensate for a poor teacher, but in most of the AP courses the pass rates scarcely surpasses 50%, sometimes going down to 0%-5%.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I'm sure a long trend of As in courses with many 1s and 2s would probably end up reflecting poorly on the school as a whole, probably hurting the applicant's chances (and future applicants from that school). Very sad for schools to do that.</p>
<p>I personally think that it doesn't matter if your teacher was good or bad, part of being a mature student is learning how to prepare and not have everything spoon fed to you. In my opinion if you got an A in the course, you should be disciplined enough to make sure you are prepared for the test. There are so many free tools to help make sure you do, I don't think that there is an excuse not to get a 3 if you are looking at a top school. With that said- I agree that one bad score shouldn't hurt you because you could be sick, calculator break. That's just how I view it anyhow.</p>
<p>My friend didnt know what computer science was up until 10 days before the exam. he got a 5 on the AB exam after only 10 days of studying.</p>
<p>APs are easy...</p>
<p>I'm not saying that having poor teachers should make it okay for you to have all 1s and 2s, but I do think it's worth considering a student has all As in AP courses with a couple of 1s and 2s on the first tests (how were they supposed to know?) and then on the many future exams has all higher scores 3-5 (not all 5s). It's tough to expect a student to do everything by themselves without a teacher, though I agree that they should do something. Maybe for some of you APs are very easy, but I can assure you few people have all 5s on a dozen tests--even at Princeton.</p>
<p>I'm sure the adcoms have considered all of these situations, anyway.</p>
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<p>No, certain AP's are easy. Try learning all of APUSH or Physics C or Biology ten days before the test, and you will have considerably more difficulty getting a 5.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was being rude, sorry about that.</p>
<p>All the ones I took were pretty easy =).</p>
<p>Put it this way, usually the top 10% get a 5 on the AP. Princeton likes to admit students a lot better than top 10% and so they expect 5s. At the same time, I doubt a 4 will seriously hurt you.</p>
<p>@ Weasel: I can attest to that! Trying to learn Physics C a few days before the test did not result in my highest scores :(</p>