<p>Hey. So I'm sure there are several high school students worried about AP scores and what will qualify to get into Berkeley.</p>
<p>Could current students make a list of the classes that they took and what they recieved?</p>
<p>Also, do you have any friends who got 1/2 on some APs and still got in?
Or applied to engineering and got like a 3/4 on the AP Calculus test?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Howdy Miss Blackroses :)</p>
<p>Yes I do have such friends!! I was meticulous about getting 5’s, but I don’t think it matters too much. AP’s aren’t the most important thing to get into college, or that is, AP test scores. Grades in them are more important.</p>
<p>AP scores aren’t factored into admission.</p>
<p>^ Seriously?? I thought you sent them in with your Application… not afterwards for credit…</p>
<p>How are they not factored in?</p>
<p>i took 5 ap tests. got a 1,2,3,3,3. and got in.</p>
<p>not much :S… they really don’t count…</p>
<p>Which I think is sorta stupid… :S since APs are one of the best indicators of knowledge learned and success in college (imho)</p>
<p>They’re not factored in, and I have to agree that it doesn’t make much sense not to include them, since they’re a nice standardized measure of what one has learned in one’s AP class.</p>
<p>The upside is that you don’t have to worry about getting 5’s on all of them.</p>
<p>They don’t look at them for admission. They just use them to see if you get college credit. They usually accept 4 and 5 for credit, but sometimes 3.</p>
<p>They look at the amount of challenging classes you took and the grades you received.
I only took 3 AP classes, one now in my senior year and received As in all of them. I got a 4 on Calc and 5 in bio and I just took my stats exam.</p>
<p>@ jbthee unknown</p>
<p>You give me soooo much hope. I came out of AP Calc ab and i was like crap… how can i even think of applying to Berkeley for engineering if i get a 3/4 on this thing. (There FRQs were nothing like the past few years… no slope field question. :[)</p>
<p>@ Mathboy</p>
<p>Hey!! :] Ah, good to know. How about your engineering friends, how did they do?</p>
<p>i got a 3 on calc ab. i was surprised. my friends and i thought we failed it big time. so we took the leftover label sticker things and wrote “i just failed the ap calc test” on them and stuck them to our faces, then walked into ap calc class like that. lol. good times.</p>
<p>^ what’s your major?</p>
<p>integrative biology in L&S</p>
<p>To be honest if you studied for the Calc AB exam, and you’re potentially going to get a 3/4, your main concern shouldn’t be “qualifying” for Berkeley engineering, but rather, if you do get admitted into engineering, realistically, how are you going to be able to handle Berkeley math/science/engineering classes? </p>
<p>I know this might sound harsh, but to be perfectly frank, virtually all the AP tests are a joke to get a 5 on (if you even just moderately prepare) because it’s curved against every high school student who took it in the nation. Certainly the AP exams are harder than your typical high school test because they aren’t as straightforward, but then, every exam in a technical course here is never straightforward regurgitation of learned material. The exams at Berkeley are not only harder than the AP tests for their respective subjects, but also curved against the top students from their high schools. </p>
<p>Of course I’m not trying to discourage you from coming to Berkeley as an engineer, but just to have a realistic idea of how you’re going to perform once you’re here. Too often virtually every freshman (myself included) hold themselves to the expectation of A’s and A’s only, but for the majority of engineering students, it’s a challenge just to maintain a 3.0.</p>
<p>World History: 5
US History: 5
US Government: 5
Chemistry: 5
Physics B: 5
Physics C (both mechanics and E&M): 5,5
Microeconomics: 5
Calculus BC: 5
Biology: 5
Environmental Science: 5
English Language: 5
English Literature: 4
Spanish Language: 3</p>
<p>Current first-year Engineering Undeclared (trying to switch to Chemical Engineering).</p>
<p>I’ll be attending Berkeley Fall '09 with Regents, L&S English major. I got in with scores of 1, 3, and 5 in Euro, US History, and English Language respectively. It’s definitely possible to get in with a failing score. I regret not studying for Euro, but at least I learned from my mistake and improved my scores the next year… or at least that what I hope admissions thought when/if they considered my scores.</p>
<p>My engineering friends didn’t necessarily have straight 5’s. Some of them did, some of them didn’t. Generally had very high grades, 2300+ SAT’s, close to straight 5’s, probably stopped caring at some point. My friends are generally smart guys 
– both are EECS majors.</p>
<p>@ equiether:</p>
<p>Yes, I realize this haha. I have the potential to work really hard, and I honestly find Calculus pretty easy. I get concepts down fast. Once I get into Berkeley, I don’t think I’d have a problem succeeding (like you said, this doesn’t mean necessarily getting an A, considering the competition), but I know I would do relatively well.</p>
<p>I have no doubt at all I will get a 5 on BC next year (although of course that is after I am declined/ accepted).</p>
<p>Miss Blackroses, my recommendation is to spend time solving lots of problems about calculus and getting a really good feel for it. It’s one of your biggest friends as a prospective engineer. Also, if you haven’t already, try some physics while you’re at it!</p>
<p>I don’t know if this helps, but one of my friends who was accepted this year got into EECS with a <2100 SAT, 3 on physics, a B in his math analysis class, and he didn’t even take calc AB until this year. On the other hand, he had an internship at Scripps. </p>
<p>Good luck next year! :)</p>
<p>^^ That is strange! He must’ve REALLY explained himself, it probably is very much out of the ordinary. I.e., he must’ve explained that his grades/test scores mean nothing somehow.</p>