Cornell supplement asks for AP Scores. Optional?

Applying to College
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The cornell supplement asks for AP scores. If it doesn’t specifically say it’s optional, do we have to fill it out?

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<p>bump.........</p>

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<p>I would think that if you have any good AP scores (let's say, 4 and higher), you should write it down, regardless if it's optional. If you leave it blank, it seems as though, you've never taken an AP exam or you recevied bad grades on them. In other words, if you have good scores, it doesn't hurt to put them down.</p>

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<p>This is a problem if your scores are not stellar. Anything less than a 4, you don't really want Cornell to know about. I'm not saying that a score less than a 4 will turn your application into an auto-deny, or even that they will care what your AP scores are, but 3's are not particularly on the positive side of the ledger for Cornell. I'm sure that the application instructions specify that you should fill in all of the scores. I really don't think that AP scores are important. At the most, it indicates one grade in one course based on one final exam that you may have taken when you weren't feeling well. Anybody can blow one exam and anyone who has graduated from college has blown one exam. The difficulty of curriculum, gpa/rank, SAT and SAT II scores, EC's, essays, recs, URM status, legacy status are all more important.</p>