<p>do i have to pay some exorbitant amount of money to have my prospective colleges see my AP scores? or is that sent automatically by my high school or whaaaaat?</p>
<p>generally this is what you do</p>
<ol>
<li><p>report your exam grades on your application if there is a space (if there isn't a space and they are very good, find a way for the GC or teacher to sneak them into a rec if you want the school to know about them)</p></li>
<li><p>get acceptance letters</p></li>
<li><p>choose which college you will matriculate to</p></li>
<li><p>report AP scores from collegeboard</p></li>
</ol>
<p>admission will be rescinded if you lie on your application
(don't turn 2's into 5's or make up exams you never took)</p>
<p>or i could put AP Scholar or whatever right? but there's realy nowhere to sneak in your scores on the application itself. how odd, i always assumed that colleges looked at your AP scores..</p>
<p>What schools are you applying to? All the colleges I'm doing apps for have room for AP scores.</p>
<p>a lot of common app ones, georgetown and michigan. although i've already sent in the michigan app</p>
<p>uh...Colleges assume you don't lie about AP scores. If they want them, they'll ask for it on their supplements. And AP scores are for credit, so send them once or twice to the schools you actually will go to.</p>
<p>You should list "AP Scholar" with honors or distinction or whatever you have under Honors and Awards. Some schools ask for the scores, but they really are more interested in the classes and the grade received than the score. Most highly selective schools will only let you use a couple of the scores for credit, and perhaps placement, so they don't really care what your scores are.</p>
<p>well, there are people who get A's in classes and 4's and 3's on the exam. so how does that make sense? colleges need to see the standardized scores, not individualized grades</p>
<p>yeah thats me, im betting its inflation. i hope they see grades not scores, but i guess if i was an adcom id check the scores more.</p>
<p>What the APs show them is that you challenged yourself. You were willing to take the hardest classes - whether you received a 4 or 5 on the AP exam matters less to them than the fact that you took the class and did well in it.</p>
<p>yeah but if you get a 96 in AP latin and a 2 on the exam...it kind of proves that Latin class is a joke</p>
<p>No - it just means you got a 2 on the exam. Kids do poorly on exams for all kinds of reasons. It may be that the class is a joke, but one kid's exam grade doesn't prove it.
Usually, colleges know the reputations of the high schools. They make their judgements based on many factors - If students consistently did poorly on AP tests at a high school, that would say something about the quality of the teaching and grading.</p>
<p>The truth is that AP scores don't mean nearly as much as SAT and SAT II scores. It matters that you take AP classes. Difficulty of curriculum is the most important thing, but the scores are not much of a priority for most colleges.</p>
<p>I am not aware of any college that actually requires that the AP score report be sent to them in the same way that SAT scores have to be sent. Some colleges do ask for AP scores on the application. A more typical question is from somebody with all 3's who wants to know if they have to report them. If you have all 5's, then it might be worth the money to you to have the report sent. If you are applying with a paper application and you want the scores to be seen, I would write them in the margin. If it doesn't matter to you and the college doesn't specially say that they want them, then save your money.</p>
<p>It is possible for them to be on your high school transcript. Every school district has a different format. Ask your GC or registrar at your high school for a copy of your transcript to review. You should do that anyway.</p>
<p>ucs require you to have college board submit your scores along with your application.</p>
<p>UC's do not require AP scores, just SAT/ACT + 2 subject tests; AP scores are sent separately from the SAT scores.</p>
<p>OP: dont' pay to send AP scores now, just list high scores in the Common App area for other info. You can send them once you pick a school in April.</p>
<p>the uc representative told me to send the scores before january or something. i'll look into this some more though.</p>
<p>the last test the UC's will accept is December. But, again, not necessary to send AP scores.....just report them if you like, which is similar to the voluntary reporting of your HS grades (honor system with checking after the fact).</p>
<p>It can be free. Just send it with your senior year AP exams.</p>