<p>You are right, the PDF version did not have that line; however, it asked to self-report them in the Academic Honors section (the online version might have handled it differently):
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<p>Does someone check all the self-reported scores against the actual scores? Will liars be caught?</p>
<p>As I do not want to be identified by the school for giving out this information, I will not mention the school’s name. However, a particular school sent me a letter after my sophomore year of high school congratulating me on taking 3 AP Exams (they knew which exams, but nothing about scores was mentioned). This seemed odd to me as I always make sure to fill or not fill out a checkbox so that I do not receive college mail. I got the chance to meet with an admissions officer from this particular school this year, and in a very comical manner, they said they could not tell me how they were familiar with my involvement in the AP program.</p>
<p>College Board says explicitly that AP scores are used as one basis for constructing student recruiting lists </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/higher-ed/recruitment/sss]SSS[/url”>Recruitment & Admissions – Higher Ed | College Board]SSS[/url</a>] </p>
<p>although I don’t know how that interacts with students’ not requesting to receive contacts from colleges.</p>
<p>Many students take APs at the end of senior year, long after the application process is done. No way are the scores required.</p>
<p>I just read this whole thread. Great information here!</p>
<p>Are you required to self-report EVERY SINGLE AP exam that you’ve taken, or can you decide?</p>
<p>^^ You can decide. You don’t have to report any score, if you don’t want to. Schools just want to see what courses you have taken, and they will know your grade in the course (not the score on the test) from your transcript. You might want to report the score on the test if you did poorly in the course, although that could work against you as well. Gaming the system, a bit…</p>
<p>Thanks. So colleges don’t see your AP score reports from the College Board? You only self-report them at the time of applying, and if you get admitted to colleges then they check?</p>
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You’re half right. You self report. Then when you are admitted and decide to go there, you check their AP credit policy. If you get credit and/or advanced standing on the basis of your AP scores, you (pay to) send an official AP score report to that college. If you don’t get credit and/or advanced standing, you don’t have to send anything. They don’t “check” if you don’t send.</p>
<p>^^ of the beauties AP testing after May 1 senior year, is that you can send the one free score report to the college that you have already selected.</p>
<p>Hey I have a pretty important question:</p>
<p>I self studied Psychology and Comparative Government this year and got 5’s. I’m going to list them on the Common App, but will the colleges need to see actual proof that I self studied and got 5’s? I mean anyone could write any AP down and the college wouldn’t know unless they saw the actual AP report.. Should I send in official AP reports with my application?</p>
<p>Have College Board send reports of those scores-- you are right to be proud of them! I am not sure if the schools will accept your sending the score in your app, even if it is the official AP report. Could be, though, check it out.</p>
<p>never mind. :)</p>
<p>I was told you need to take both since the College Admissions Committee uses the SAT Subject Matter test for admissions, but the college uses the AP score for credit and/or placement. Anybody hear anything different?</p>