Did Your Colleges Contact You for AP Scores?

Applying to College
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<p>This week I received a query from a student who has taken several AP exams but did not report his scores to colleges because he wasn't pleased with them. </p>

<p>He just received an e-mail message from a staff member at a university on his list (a highly selective school) asking him to provide the AP scores in order to give the admission committee more information.</p>

<p>So my questions are: </p>

<p>**1. Have those of you who took AP exams--but did NOT report your scores to colleges--been solicited for scores by admission officials? (If yes, which colleges asked?)</p>

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<li>If you didn't send the scores in the first place because you didn't like them, how did you respond to this request?**</li>
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<p>Admittedly, it's probably premature for this survey since most applications have not been submitted, and the reading season won't start in earnest until mid-January. But some of you, nonetheless, may have received such requests already, especially Early Decision/Action applicants.</p>

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<p>There should be a code of professional ethics for these things, or language in the application itself about the terms of possible requests for non-required information (such as AP scores).</p>

<p>The application is a contract. If it doesn’t specify that AP scores are required, once the college accepted the application fee, that is that. </p>

<p>Unless the colleges makes it clear that it can’t hurt the applicant’s chances to refuse the request for more information, they are changing the bargain after the fact by hitting up the applicant for more time, more money (whether for a postage stamp or the fee for an official AP score report), more whatever, with an implied threat of reduced admissions chances if the “more” isn’t delivered.</p>