<p>I took 5 AP exams this year, and got 5 on four of them and I self studied for all of them (No APs in school here).
I want to retake the one in which I got a 3. I will be applying the next year and I've not sent my scores to any college yet.</p>
<p>The AP website says:
"Score Cancellation
Canceling your AP Exam score permanently deletes it — it cannot be reinstated at a later time. Scores may be canceled at any time.Once you request a cancellation, the exam will not be scored, and a score for that exam will never be available. (Archived scores cannot be canceled.) While there is no fee for this service, your exam fee is not refunded."</p>
<p>So if I cancel my score, will the Grade report reflect that I cancelled my exam or anything like that?</p>
<p>I also have same question - Is there any other side effects of cancelling (permanently deleting) a bad score? In our case we don’t want to take it again.</p>
<p>There’s no point in cancelling a score. You self-report them when you apply so you can choose to omit it if it really bothers you that much. If you haven’t taken a corresponding course, then just don’t mention the score on your application and colleges won’t know you even took the exam. However, your counselor may mention you self-studying APs in your letter of rec so make sure he doesn’t mention that one, or colleges may assume you got a 1 or a 2 and that’s why you didn’t report it. If you cancel the score, you can’t get credit for the course when you send the official score report after you’ve been accepted. After you’ve been accepted, colleges won’t care if the score is in your official score report.</p>
<p>A 3 is still a respectable score, and when put in the context that it was self-studied along with 4 other APs which you received 5s on, it’s incredibly good.</p>
<p>Before you consider retaking the exam, check to see if you’ll get college credit for it. If you do, there’s no point since you’ll have already been accepted to colleges.</p>
<p>@Matt846 …we have the student getting an A in the regular class but a bad score in AP. He has all 5s and 4s in other subjects. From what you are mentioning, colleges would think that the subject where someone took AP course in the school, may have a good grade but no AP score would lead them to think that they got 1 or 2 in AP score. </p>
<p>That is only subjective evaluation. Is there anything that may impact quantitatively?</p>