Do colleges automatically see your AP Scores?

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<p>Do colleges automatically see your AP Scores? Or, do they only see them if you self report them? I am applying to UPenn but I didn't see anything specific about submitting scores on their website.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>AP scores are self-reported on all applications for admission. Once you’ve chosen a college to attend, you send official AP scores just to that school.</p>

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<p>AP and SAT scores are separate. AP scores are sent if 1) you indicated in the AP exam form what college you want to send the scores to, in which that college will receive all scores you have taken unless you canceled or withheld the score, or 2) you request scores to be sent to a college, by phone I think. Instructions are in your AP student pack.</p>

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<p>Oh I see. I took 5 AP exams this year and let’s say I don’t do well on the Calc AB exam. I can still the other 4 scores and the colleges won’t know that I took the Calc AB right? I wasn’t sure before so I was considering canceling my score if it would hurt me. But if I don’t report it, they’ll never know I took it right?</p>

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<p>Colleges will not know you took a test if you self-studied for it. They can know whether you took a test if you took a class, and it may seem strange if you take an AP class but not the exam. But colleges generally don’t consider AP exams, so if you’re going to college in the fall or you self-studied for an exam, go ahead and cancel it if you must.</p>

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<p>On this line of thought - do you think it’s alright to ask a teacher whose class I aced but got a 3 on the exam for a letter of recommendation? Will colleges find that odd? Just wondering because he’d write me a much better letter than the teachers in whose classes I got a 5 on the exam.</p>

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<p>Wynter, i’m sure you’d be fine. There are some colleges that actually care more about the grade you get in the class than the score on the AP test. The class grade shows that you have worked hard over a long period of time. An AP test could always be a fluke or something like that.</p>

<p>By no means will colleges think it odd that you are asking your teacher for a rec letter when you got a 3 of the corresponding AP test</p>