<p>This may be old news to many, but I thought I'd throw it out there for those who may not be aware.</p>
<p>You (or your child) can phone in to get their AP test results. They won't be mailed for a few more weeks. The cost is $8 per call to get the results and you can also send your AP grades by phone for a fee of $15 per college. All this is payable by credit card only.</p>
<p>The numbers are 1-888-308-0013 or 1-609-771-7366 (if you are calling outside the U.S., U.S. territories, and Canada).</p>
<p>You need either the AP# or their social security number (if they provided that when they took the exam) to get the results.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone's kid!!!</p>
<p>P.S. I also happened to notice on the front page of Collegeboard.com that June SAT scores are also available for most who took the test.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info...I wasn't sure whether or not to call them, but reasoned that $8 is pretty cheap. 5s in Calc BC (plus AB subscore), Bio, and Chem...so I'm happy, especially since I thought I would get a 4 in Calc or Chem.</p>
<p>You're welcome. And congratulations. Those are great scores!</p>
<p>S also got a 5 on Calculus BC (plus a 5 on the AB subscore) and 4s on Biology and European History. I was shocked at the Calculus score because S did not like that teacher at all, and he tends to not put in as much effort in that situation. But, like her or not, she's taught AP Calculus at our school for 30 years, the great majority of her students get 5's (large high school, 2000 kids, she teaches 4 separate sections to accommodate every student), so the results speak for themselves.</p>
<p>I pulled down S's AP Equivalancy Chart at the college he's going to and was pleasantly surprised at how much college course credit he's going to get. Saved $$$ is always good!!</p>
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<p>He should be careful about this. Using all of one's AP credits is not always the best choice. Sometimes, the college's introductory course in a subject is quite different from the AP course, and a student may be better off taking the college course even if he/she could have had AP credit. In other instances, though, the AP course provides a perfectly adequate foundation for advanced college courses in the same subject. The situation differs from college to college and even from department to department within a college. It's something that your son should discuss with advisors at his college before he makes his course choices.</p>
<p>You make a good point, Marian, and one that we are contemplating. S's major will be in the Biology field, so I'm thinking that he may forego credit for the AP Biology test and start with the intro courses to build the proper groundwork. But he will definitely not be a math major and more likely than not a history major, so I think we're pretty comfortable getting course credit for those.</p>
<p>I think the answer is definitely more $$$, but not the way you stated. More dollars for the College Board. How about the CSS that many schools require in place of the FAFSA? More $$$ for the College Board. Bandwidth, schmandwidth. It's the way it is (and I paid my $8 too). More fun to play Monopoly when you ARE the bank.</p>
<p>So even though many students sit for the same number of total SAT/ACT's as their total individual number of AP sittings, it would require tremendously more bandwith to post AP tests? (Particularly because I've never heard of people who take an AP test but do <em>not</em> take either an SAT or ACT?)</p>
<p>Sorry, I don't believe it. If anything, SAT/ACT is more universal, even if a majority of applicants do not take the latter multiple times.</p>
<p>If your S/D will be a college freshman, many schools have the AP scores already noted on the "transcript" page for your student. That's how we got D1's scores last year so early without $$. This year, I buckled under my curiousity and forked out the $8. I emailed them to her (she's currently in Africa)....I wish I could see her reaction, because she did significantly better than she thought she did. Whoo hoo!</p>
<p>epiphany, thanks for that reminder; I've made a note of it. </p>
<p>astrophysicsmom, I buckled, too. I'll let the kid rip open the envelope himself, however, when he's back from camp; he seems not to care one whit about his score!</p>
<p>"If your S/D will be a college freshman, many schools have the AP scores already noted on the "transcript" page for your student. That's how we got D1's scores last year so early without $$."</p>
<p>Right. This reminder is really for those who didn't pre-indicate their college(s) of choice, at/before the AP exam(s) for one or for more years.</p>
<p>For those that paid the $8: was there any academic reason to so? Does knowing the scores two weeks earlier than snail mail make any difference in your summer/fall plans?</p>
<p>epiph:</p>
<p>Unlike SAT/ACT scores, there is little need for students/parents to see AP scores any faster. For example, test scores taken in the fall could determine whether a kids applies early, or retakes, so timing may be of the essence. But, not really true with AP scores, which techinically, are not supposed to be used for admissions anyway. I can also assume that CB uses different servers for AP records, and thus would require enhanced security features (not bandwith) if they let folks log in, but that's just a guess. Sure, they have the money to do it, but then I go back to my earlier question posed above, and ask why should they?</p>
<p>While not a CB defender by any means, I don't think this issue has much legs.</p>
<p>Bluebayou, my son needed the results as he goes to orientation July 14th-15th and he will register at that time. We both thought the chances were "dicey" if he would receive the paper results in time to have them in hand for consideration when he had to think about fall classes and prerequisites.</p>
<p>Oh, and because my S and I are both impatient!! It was worth the $8 to us!!</p>
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<p>No, not in this household. It was sheer impatience and curiosity on my part. My S doesn't know his score yet, as he's off in camp, doesn't care, and is happy to wait for the snail mail.</p>
<p>Many kids are going through registration for college right now and it is worth the money to not have to change a schedule weeks from now. My D took a chance on her score since they weren't even available by phone when she registered, but it would have been nice to know for sure.</p>
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<p>Are you saying that your high school puts the AP scores on the high school transcript before sending it to the colleges? If so, are you okay with that? Our high school does not do this, and I would take issue with them if they did, because what if a student did not want to report their AP score to a college?</p>
<p>Students can choose to report their AP scores to the colleges they are attending in the fall. That's why the scores would appear on their online transcript page in the college records accessible to them.</p>
<p>Some high schools do list AP scores on their transcripts, though, and yes, I think that's a good thing with which to take issue!</p>