<p>Well.. i wanted to know wheter or not UC admission officers will take into consideration my AP scores? My UC representative at school told me that the admission ppl have the AP scores, but do not take it into considerdation for admission... is this true? Can anybody she soome inight on this? Or... is this the wrong thread to post this topic in? LOL.</p>
<p>they only see them if you send them. However it may be a good idea to send your scores to schools you apply to in order for them to take the AP classes you took seriously. It is great to match a 5 with an A in a class. If you dont send scores it may make the university skeptical about your ability.</p>
<p>Ohh.. okay</p>
<p>Would a 4 on an AP test look appealing at all for a top-tier college (JHU)? Should I send my score? I got an A in the class but a 4 on the test.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^</p>
<p>Your not joking right KRabble88</p>
<p>even if u SEND your scores.. will they take it into consideration!? Because i heard AP was made ONLY to give high school students college credit.</p>
<p>ahighschooler:</p>
<p>No, I'm not joking, because I understand that students that apply to such colleges seem so perfect in everyway (getting 5's, 800's, etc.). I, on the other hand, cannot achieve such perfection, and maybe my outlook on all of this is askew, but I don't feel that a 4 would look very big next to another applicant's abundance of 5's.</p>
<p>If it's not required, then it makes sense to only send it in if it will help you. Every part of the application helps the adcom learn more about you, which is the reason most schools "recommend" that you do certain things that are not necessarily requirements for their school (such as send in AP scores). If your AP scores will detract from your excellence in other parts of the application, then there is no reason to report them. The adcom may wonder why you haven't submitted them, but they can't just make an arbitrary assumption about what score you received. I'm in a similar situation (actually I have a 3), and I'm planning on not reporting any AP scores because of it.</p>
<p>Rachel Toor, former Duke ad com, writes about AP scores on p. 92-93 of College Confidential:</p>
<p>"Although the scores on the (AP) tests were meant, originally, for placement into higher level college courses and were not intended to be used in college admissions, they are. We expect students to score 5s on their tests. If they get a couple of 4s, that's okay, but anything below a 4 doesn't help much. We don't require that students report these scores for admission; if they do, however, we use them. I always told students that if they scored below a 4, not to report it to us."</p>
<p>Michele Hernandez, former Dartmouth adcom, says on pp. 119-120 of Acing the College Application:</p>
<p>"The second key point (and this is a major flaw of the common application) is that you will notice there is no space at all for either AP or IB scores. That might give you the impression that these scores don't count, but that is not the case. In fact, since both AP and IB tests are considered the most difficult and collegelike tests around, colleges sometimes weigh these even more heavily than SAT Is and SAT IIs.... A strong showing on these tests can counterbalance less than stellar scores elsewhere... Do not leave out these scores even if they are not perfect."</p>
<p>you see i am applying to second tier schools and i have one 3 out of 6 tests so that is why i am worried.</p>
<p>As I guessed, they expect to see your AP Scores</p>
<p>Just to clarify, you do not have to report all your AP scores. Colleges do not require you to send in an official score report and rely on your self-reported scores on your application. Because of this, you can report scores you are happy with (definately 4's and 5's) and leave off not-so-great scores (if you follow Ms. Toor's advice, this includes 3's)</p>
<p>yyou can CHOOSE wat scores to SEND?!</p>
<p>if i self-studied and got 4s and didn't report ur score, the adcoms wouldn't know if i took the test right?</p>
<p>If you don't send in a score, won't they know you did worse on that test than on the ones you do send in?</p>
<p>^ not necessarily..there are some people who take the AP course but don't take the test - whether for financial reasons or simply because they didn't feel comfortable. While I would guess colleges might be suspicious, there's no way they can >legitimately< assume you did badly if you don't report the score...</p>
<p>Oh. alright. cool.</p>