Do Colleges Care About AP Scores?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Do colleges care about AP scores? I will be switching to an online school next year, and my current public offers no AP courses for freshmen and sophomores, so I have not taken any of the classes or exams yet.</p>

<p>I am unsure if I should load up on AP classes and self-studying for my junior year, or if it's okay to balance things out and take half junior year and half senior year.</p>

<p>My plan is to take pre-calculus, AP English Language, AP Bio, AP USH, physics and calculus during my junior year.
Exams in AP Bio, AP World, AP USH, AP Lang and self-studying for AP Psychology. I will also be taking the ACT with writing and the SAT exam, as well as the SAT II for biology.</p>

<p>Senior year would be AP Calculus, AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP English Literature, Spanish 4, AP World History.
Exams in AP Chem, AP Physics, AP English Literature, AP World History and self-studying for AP Environmental Science, along with SAT again in September of senior year. </p>

<p>What I am wondering is, will it look bad to not have the AP exam scores in physics, english literature, world history, chemistry and calculus listed on my application?</p>

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<p>Most colleges do not take AP scores or tests for that matter into admissions decisions. The only time they really care about what you get or take an AP test on is when you are enrolled and are signing up for classes. Then this is when you get to see just how many (or how little) classes you have tested out of.</p>

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<p>I read in Admissions Confidential that it’s best to exclude AP scores unless you got a 5 (the book, of course, was focused on admissions at Duke and is focused on admissions in the early 00s)</p>

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<p>You don’t have to report AP scores, so they don’t hurt you if you do badly. I’m not sure if reporting something worse that a 5 is detrimental.</p>

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<p>I so hope so because if they don’t I went through hell for nothing.</p>

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<p>I don’t think they matter that much, but surely report 4s too. P</p>

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<p>Thank you! I plan, and hope to get 4’s and 5’s on all of my exams. I just wasn’t sure whether it was necessary to take more during my junior year so that they could see more scores, instead of taking some junior year and some senior year.</p>