I truly don’t intend to boast at all, like many others on CC, but in your honest opinion, what looks more attractive.</p>
AP: 5</p>
or SAT II US: 790</p>
I was thinking about it, and was wondering this: Can i assume that many of the kids who took APUSH also took the SAT subject USH, or is that a stretch. </p>
I understand that maybe, as a RAW multiple choice score, a 760 and above would perhaps indicate a 5 (for most, not all). Would that possibly mean that a 780-800 would indicate an extraordinary knowledge of the material? or not? What is your opinion</p>
I don’t know what you mean by “looks more attractive” lol but a 5 can get you farther. Like you said, 780-800 shows exemplary knowledge of the material, however, most colleges don’t offer course credit for SAT II performance. But a lot of institutions will free you from certain classes for your 5!</p>
And yeah you can assume that a lot of APUSH kids took the SAT II.</p>
Unfortunately, the College Board website is currently undergoing some maintenance, so I can’t give you the exact percentiles right now, but I believe that a score of 800 on the SAT II exam in United States History is in the 98th (or 96th, I don’t really remember) percentile; I’m sure that a 790 is not too far from that percentile. A 5 on the AP exam places an individual in the top 11% percent of test takers (or thereabouts), so I would imagine that a 790 is actually more impressive.</p>
However, I think that SAT II scores and AP scores fulfill two different purposes, so I doubt that they would be compared against each other in the manner you imagine. The only time there would be some concern, I believe, is if there were some great disparity between the AP and SAT II scores.</p>