I received a 3 on my AP Euro exam when almost my entire class received 5s. I got an A in the class though. Is 3 a bad score??? and will it affect college for me if I want to go to pretty good schools such as NYU or Fordham???
If you do not get into NYU or Fordham, it will not be because of a 3, IMO.
On a related note, make sure you run the Net Price Calculator for your colleges; NYU is not known for being generous with FA.
DO NOT submit your score… it doesn’t look sketchy, it just looks like you are saving money. If you have a 4 or 5 in another exam, submit that, but you do not have to submit the score. And… you’ll get into Fordham if you are aiming for NYU in my opinion. Also what major? I’m also thinking about those schools.
I am also wondering the same thing. I don’t think ap scores matter so much as your sat or gpa or letters of recommendation, but a good score can help add to your application. You should ask ur counselor if you can withdraw that score from your application.
I don’t believe AP scores matter at all for admissions. My son didn’t send any of his scores until after he had made his decision to enroll and was submitting them for credit. This is what his guidance counselor advised. She said that most colleges do not consider AP scores in the admission criteria at all, so it isn’t worth it to pay the extra to send scores to schools each year. He took AP World History freshman year, and continued to take them throughout high school. He had no idea what colleges to use for the first three years of high school for the free send you get when you sit for the test. Senior year was the first time that he actually knew where to send them. It gets expensive sending the scores if you need to do it multiple times. If it’s not going to help for admission, why bother?
AP scores matter. Why wouldn’t they? But some forget that the scores that matter most are those related to the posible major. Then some other cores.
If OP isn’t humanities, has a strong record otherwise (and that includes all the app, not just stats,) it may not be a show stopper. Especially if there are other strong humanities AP scores. (If so, maybe she omits just this Euro score.)
When you don’t report any scores, adcoms need to look deeper at the rest to find (and somewhat guess) your strengths. It’s not necessarily an advantage.
And OP should be lookig for matches and safeties, not just picking “pretty good schools.” Learn where you record, all of it, does show what those adcoms want to find.
Yes, of course they matter. Everything on an application matters.
But they don’t matter anywhere near as much as grades, course rigor, standardized tests, or ECs. They’re at the next tier, maybe two, down of minor factors. But they can be tiebreakers . I think this article sums it up fairly well:
“Although AP scores are far from the most important part of your application, high scores can act in your favor, whereas a number of low scores can be a red flag. This is especially true at selective schools.”
When many schools ask for AP scores on their admission application, saying AP tests don’t matter for admissions just seems silly.
Look at it this way. For an uber selective, with a 4.0uw, lots of true rigor, truly great LoRs, solid on-target writing, plus 1550+, if those AP scores are 3 and below, in courses that matter, an adcom will sigh. He or she know the next kid may have the same basics- and all 4s and 5s. The higher the tier, the more likely it’s mostly 5s, maybe 1 or 2 4s.
No one thing overrides others and their no one poor aspect can be magically overridden by other sections.