<p>If they look at your application will they use AP Test scores that you have to determine if you are admitted or not, Obviously if you pass an AP test you get college credit, but if you do really bad on one can it seriously damage your admission chances?</p>
<p>Getting college credit if you “pass” an AP test depends on the school, the AP class, and the AP test grade. Some schools won’t give any credit for AP tests, even if the score is 5.</p>
<p>If submitting AP test grades is not an application requirement, than I doubt that the college will use AP test results that are submitted as any kind of selection criteria.</p>
<p>AP test scores are an indicator of your academic prowess and potential. Schools do use them in admissions, but they are not a significant factor. I don’t know of any schools that require official AP test scores to be submitted with applications. The far more important academic factors are your grades, rigor of your courses and course selections, rank (if provided), and ACT/SAT results. Bombing a single AP test will not prevent you from being admitted to good schools and it can be explainable in many ways (you were sick, for example).</p>
<p>What about if you get like a C in an AP Class but get a 5 on the test. (In AP Calc at my school my teacher makes the class and his tests for the class twice as hard as the AP Test, so even people who get a C or D get at least a 4 and usually 5’s, (There’s a chart on one of his cabinet’s that shows his AP Test scores from like 2006-2012 and one year he had 97.5% of his AP Calc student’s get a 4 or 5. and the majority got a 5. There was one 3 and one 2.
Out of 80 students in 2012 (In 2 classes) 68 got a 5, 10 got a 4, one got a 3 and only one student got a 2, nobody got a 1. But could you put that on an application that you’re bad grade in the class was only because the teacher makes the class harder than most teachers who teach the same class do, and will they get to see how everybody who took the same class did on average?</p>
<p>You can’t put that explanation on your application. Your college advisor can. Talk to him and see what he says about that particular class and how he writes about it to colleges. It’s undoubtedly come up before.</p>
<p>Harvard is the only college that I’m aware of that puts an emphasis on AP scores over other testing: <a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/harvarddean-part2/[/url]”>http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/harvarddean-part2/</a></p>
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<p>There are actually a few schools that use subject tests or AP tests as alternative to SAT/ACT scores.
By the way, the article is about predicting college success not admission.</p>
<p>^^^
Interesting; I know that quite a few schools allow SAT subject tests to be submitted in place of the SAT 1 or ACT, but I’ve never heard of a school allowing AP tests to serve the same purpose.</p>
<p>Colorado College is an example where an applicant may elect to submit AP results in lieu of SAT/ACT.
[Flexible</a> Testing Policy ? Colorado College](<a href=“http://www.coloradocollege.edu/admission/application/testing/policy/]Flexible”>Test-Optional Policy - Colorado College)</p>
<p>You have a small number of colleges (NYU is another) where you have the option to submit AP scores in lieu of SAT or ACT scores (or in lieu of SAT subject tests if subject tests otherwise required) and if you take that option they become the scores used for admission. Otherwise, colleges do not require AP scores for admission. Majority will not use them for admission. A minority, including most of your high ranks, will consider them.</p>