<p>I've heard some people say they were canceling? My school pays for all APs and requires that we "take" them. If I am not satisfied do I even have to send in the score report? Will anybody(research profs?) ever ask about AP scores or is it old news once you are in college?</p>
<p>If they see you have an AP class and didn’t send the score, they will probably assume you got a 2.</p>
<p>Since a lot of schools do not require students to take the AP exams, I doubt anybody at Vanderbilt will make any assumptions about a missing score.</p>
<p>Have you already been admitted, or are you asking about next year? If you have been admitted, you certainly do not need to send in your AP scores. No one will be looking at AP scores unless you are asking for credit or to be released from a course requirement.</p>
<p>If you are asking for the future, I don’t believe Vanderbilt asks what your scores are prior to admission. (Some students with outstanding records send in a report anyway if they believe it will help with admission or scholarships.) Few, if any, schools require an official score report prior to admission, although some want you to self-report.</p>
<p>My opinion is, if you take the exam, as required, but don’t like the score, don’t send in the report. However, if memory serves me, you don’t get to pick and choose which scores you want to send and which you don’t. They all appear together on a single print out. There is some provision for canceling a score very shortly after the exam is taken, but I don’t remember the details. Look on the College Board site for that information.</p>
<p>APs don’t count for a thing at Vanderbilt anyway. They just add them as elective credit to the number of credits you need to graduate (i.e., you need 120 VU credits to graduate. If you took 5 AP classes and scored well, you need 120 VU credits to graduate but you end up with 130+ credits listed for your degree. It doesn’t get you out of classes), unless it’s a foreign language AP.</p>
<p>IMO, if you’re worried about failing, don’t send the scores. – contrary to the post above me I know.</p>
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<p>This isn’t true. </p>
<p>The first 18 count. Also if it is Chem AP, Calc AP, or Physics AP you can place out of the first intro class. In the case of physics you can place into the major track, harder, intro class. Bio AP doesn’t count for much at all. Won’t count for AXLE (obviously no AP do), and it won’t count for the major. You can use AP credits to count for some minors as well (Math and Chem come to mind).</p>
<p>To answer the OP’s question: No research professor will care about your AP scores. As you suggested it is “old news.”</p>
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<p>Well, my post was the one above yours, and that is what I said. </p>
<p>If the OP–or any other student reading this–is in the engineering school (VUSE), it is completely untrue that APs don’t count for anything. They can make a major difference in the courses you have to take as a freshman, and a strong AP record can put you into advanced classes far more quickly than someone who enters with no AP or who chooses not to use them. At least for my son’s class, the limit of 18 credits (as in CAS) was not the case. I haven’t heard of a policy change.</p>
<p>When did your son enter? I think it is either class of 2010 or 2011 that has the cap of 18. It was a relatively recent change.</p>
<p>^^^He just finished sophomore year, but remember I am talking about engineering, not CAS. I only brought it up because I don’t know which school the OP was asking about.</p>
<p>Only A&S caps it at 18. For all other schools, there is an 8 credit limit per subject area, but no overall cap. </p>
<p>“At the determination of individual departments, Advanced Placement Examination grades with a score of 4 or 5 may be accepted for credit. The amount of credit that may be awarded corresponds to the course work waived, up to a maximum of 8 hours in any subject area. Advanced Placement credit does not affect the Vanderbilt grade point average. Students of the College of Arts and Science are limited to a total of 18 credit hours earned by an combination of advanced placement, international baccalaureate credit, advanced international credit, and credit by departmental examination, counting toward the minimum number of hours required toward the degree. No form of advanced placement credit can be used in fulfillment of the Achieving Excellence in Liberal Education (AXLE) requirements for students in the College of Arts and Science. {excerpt from The Bulletin of Vanderbilt University: Undergraduate Catalog}”</p>
<p>just do it to get college credits, AP credits can fulfill core reqirements</p>
<p>I’ve already been accepted to VUSE and am a CV scholar(idk if they expect more). Prospective BME major. </p>
<p>I’ve taken physics at a local college and the final is next week as well. I’m giving that a little more weight than APs since the credit/grade can transfer(maybe?).</p>
<p>I don’t expect to do that badly, I guess the question was just more out of curiosity and to support laziness. </p>
<p>For example stat i know can’t count for eng and we didn’t finish the book, so it seems kind of pointless to study.</p>
<p>Oh btw can I use AP Comp Sci A credit to avoid ANY more computer science??</p>
<p>Hey holland1945, I’m as well a prospective BME major (with a double in Math) and have taken math courses (not physics) at the college level. And I asked if they will transfer and they said that as long as it isn’t needed for you to graduate then it will tansfer, and these duel enrollment courses do work toward our majors.
Also on the AP Statistic exam, don’t even worry about taking it because it is not applicable for engineerig students because high school statistics is algebra based and the engineering school requires us to take calculus based statistics.</p>
<p>Alaster27, my son’s post-Calc BC university math courses did transfer for credit, and allowed him to take more advanced math courses as a freshman. He is a cs/math major. </p>
<p>Holland, I don’t know about AP cs credit. You could call engr. and ask; I’m sure the question comes up often.</p>
<p>Yeah I meant to say “isn’t needed for you to graduate highschool” then it will transfer for credit. I guess I should’ve been more specific lol</p>