<p>Everyone knows that SAT scores are extremely important for most colleges...but how much can AP scores help with college admissions?</p>
<p>Yes, it can help, but no, not by much. </p>
<p>Yeah, it can help. It’s more helpful than subject tests at least. </p>
<p>Depends on how good it is. I mean a 5 simply won’t cut it anymore. Try to get the email for college board saying that you got a perfect score on the exam. Then the colleges will be impressed.</p>
<p>No, because colleges don’t look at them until after you’re admitted.</p>
<p>European universities (think Oxford, Cambridge) are more interested in AP scores than in American HS grades, which they view as impossible to access. (Our high schools vary too much without common standards. AP exams are national and achievement based, in the European mode.)
If you are not applying outside the country, AP scores look good if they are 4/5 and will be used primarily in placement of admitted students to classes, with some colleges giving credit for some AP.</p>
<p>Depends on college. Many colleges, including most of your high ranks, will consider AP scores that you provide as one factor among many in your file review for admission, although they do not have the importance of any required ACT or SAT scores, including SAT subject test scores. However, majority of colleges do not consider AP scores for admission even if provided. There are a small number of colleges which do not require AP scores but will actually accept them in lieu of other scores, in which case they take on signifanct importance if you choose that option, e.g., NYU accepts for admission three AP scores in lieu of any SAT, ACT or subject test scores.</p>