During Senior Year, if you tell colleges that you will self-study for AP courses such as AP Psychology, AP Govt, AP Human Geography, and AP Enviro, and you tell them that you are planning to take them the end of the year, but they are not on your course transcript, will colleges still be appealed by the number of APS and work you are putting in to study for for these exams? Or will they only regard courses that have been taught by teachers and in your school?
think about it… what if you tell collleges you are planning on self-studying, that is using just AP study guides (Barrons, Kaplans etc…), and say that you will take 3 additional AP exams next May 2006? Do you think that they will still give you somewhat credit, perhaps not equal to the value of taking a course, but close to it?
The funny thing is that, what if you get into college, and don’t take the AP exams…?
<p>AP tests are designed to test your knowledge and ability to handle tough material. It is the same for everyone across the nation which just says how much you know versus everyone else. If you score well and you self study thats a good thing because it show syou not only can handle harder material you are also self motivated. (assuming you dont get help from some tutor which many people actualy do) but since your specifying you did it all on your own thats a plus. Good for you. Oh yeah in summary of course its a good thing IF YOU SCORE WELL. If not then well dont send your scores. More important is if your taking enough APs comapred to the students at your school and how many they offer.</p>
<p>the only thing is if you do it yourself and put it down as an AP. I doubt that is equivalent to taking the course where a school knows that you have th ebest to offer..?</p>
<p>Is this something where you are already accepted into a college for this Fall, and you are worried that the will revoke the acceptance if you didn't follow thru on your promises to self-study AP classes?</p>
<p>I will assume this is the case. I doubt that your promise to self-study had anything to do with your acceptance except it may impressed them with your enthusism. Did you promise you would take the SAT after senior year and score a 1580? :) Now that you are accepted, they will see your final senior transcript and look at that. I can't imagine that anyone made a note reminding them to go look to make sure you took the AP exams.</p>
<p>No, it is for reapplying. My point is as stated above, and I would like your opinions on colleges' perceptions on this "self-study" issue and their considerations as an AP course-equivalent.</p>
<p>I'm still not totally clear. Are you reapplying now after not doing the AP self-study or are you just asking about the value of self-studying an AP class?</p>
<p>If you are reapplying after not actually doing the promised AP stuff, it would depend on whether they kept any of the information from the previous year. I doubt it. They might have it on a computer file that you applied, but they probably tossed any of the documentation.</p>
<p>If you are just asking about the value of self-studying AP classes, I think that it would count for a lot in terms of initiative. You would have to do reasonably well on the AP exams in order to back it up.</p>