<p>Hi, I'm about to apply to Ivy league schools as a transfer student and I was wondering if they made AP scores mandatory?</p>
<p>AP scores are never mandatory as instruction isn’t accessible to everyone, everywhere.</p>
<p>Are you sure? So it is okay to omit these scores from say Yale while they still ask for the SATs or ACTs?</p>
<p>i would still submit them if you eventually want credit for them or if you want to show that you did well on them. some schools specifically ask for them, but i’m not really familiar with yale’s requirements.</p>
<p>Yale says that college courses taken during high school aren’t credited:
“College courses that are similar to those available to Yale undergraduates are usually transferable. In determining the number of transferable credits, Yale does not count courses taken during high school, college credits awarded for Advanced Placement Tests, correspondence courses or the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests.”
You don’t need to send them in. If you feel it will help your applicationsomehow, there isn’t anything stopping you, but don’t expect credit.</p>
<p>The transfer CA (which Y uses) does not require official AP score reports, but it does say to self-report AP scores. I don’t see anywhere that says it’s optional.</p>
<p>I was referring to the official score report, which isn’t needed.</p>
<p>Self-report them. Even if they aren’t stellar, the fact that you opted to take rigorous courses can only be an asset.</p>
<p>As entomon said, at schools that ask for them, they are not optional.</p>
<p>Ditto what entomom said: Omitting them will seem at best careless and at worst disingenuous.</p>
<p>I think I originally misinterpreted the question as if APs were required tests (like SATs). Rereading this makes more sense: not sending your scores from AP tests will, indeed, seem like you’re trying to hide something.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the common app will let you not self report your scores, but I think not reporting the scores when the ap classes show up on your high school transcript would raise a red flag.</p>
<p>I agree and understand where everyone is coming from, thank you for answering my question. So in conclusion- Yale asks you to self-report your scores, but not to back them up? And obviously I’m asking because I received scores that I’m not proud of showing any Ivy League institution, but this could mean that another person could just as easily report getting all 5s and 4s while they got all 1s and 2s. It sounds very much like some of the Air Force Academy’s application documents. A lot of trust dependability.</p>
<p>Would anyone suggest that I call Yale to get a better explanation? I, too, read the website and it has still left me confused. Thank you all, though.</p>
<p>when in doubt, just call and ask anonymously.</p>
<p>if someone were to report all 4s and 5s, Yale could ask for score reports after they extend acceptance, couldn’t they? then it would be grounds for revoking acceptance if they discover the student lied.</p>
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<p>Not just the Air Force, but ALL college applications. There are many things that they don’t/can’t check: who wrote your essays, ECs, ethnicity & race (except NA). If you’re worried that someone else may cheat and are using that as a justification for your omission…well, that’s a very slippery slope.</p>
<p>If you’re applying as a transfer student, I’d think they’d want your college record more than AP scores, etc., but you probably should call and ask.</p>