<p>When you withhold or cancel and AP score, does Collegeboard just pretend it never existed or does it say something like "score for this test withheld/canceled by student" on the score report sent to the colleges? </p>
<p>Also, can you cancel scores from previous years?</p>
<p>And does the score report include your average?</p>
<p>When you apply, you can self-report scores for any exams you have taken if you want to report them. You don’t have to say anything at all if you didn’t like the scores.</p>
<p>When you are actually enrolled, if your scores are good enough to be used for credit or placement, you can have the College Board send the scores to the college/university you will be attending. Again, if they aren’t going to get you any credit or placement, you can save your money and not have them sent at all.</p>
<p>I can also withhold some of the scores and send the others. What I want to know is if the college I send them to will know whether some of the scores have been withheld.</p>
<p>Ask them.</p>
<p>It is my understanding that the College Board will only send the scores for the specific exams and specific dates that you request to have sent.</p>
<p>This has nothing to do with admissions. The official AP scores are only used for awarding credit or placement. If your report gets to your college, the people in the records office who actually make the decision about what counts as what do not give a rip about any “bad” scores you might have. They only care about the ones that are “good enough” to give you credit for a course and/or placement into a higher level course.</p>
<p>So I shouldn’t worry about them seeing 1s and 2s I didn’t report on the commonapp?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it at all. The admissions officers look at the applications. The registrar’s office staff will look at the AP record. Two completely different sets of people.</p>
<p>Happy Mom,</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your post. I have been losing sleep over my son’s three AP exams next month. I didn’t realize that they were not considered in the admissions process per se. I had assumed that they could make or break an admit. I do understand that they are self reporting. My son in particular doesn’t have much time to study for English and History AP but is focusing on chemistry which he think will be harder.</p>
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<p>Your son can self report the scores that are “good” and not report the ones that are “bad”. He even gets to decide for himself it he thinks they are “good” or not. Heck, he can even make multiple versions of the Common App and report some to some colleges and others to other colleges if he feels like it.</p>
<p>The exams that do matter for admissions (for colleges/universities that require them) are the ACT/SAT, SAT II, and TOEFL/IELTS.</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
<p>I have another question though (just curiosity). Doesn’t the admissions office check to see whether the scores one reported on the commonapp match up with the official AP score report? Or do they just ask the registrar’s office to do that for them?</p>
<p>You would need to ask each college/university about that one.</p>
<p>Oh, ok</p>
<p>Thank you anyway</p>