<p>Ap Help </p>
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<p>this maybe the most basic of questions, but it has been bugging me for a while.</p>
<p>how does it look to colleges if you take an AP test and get a 2, rather than not taking the test at all?</p>
<p>All my freinds keep saying that it doesn't hurt you if you fail the AP test because colleges dont factor that into their decision, but I am not too sure about that.</p>
<p>This is the way I look at it.
If you take the AP Test and do REALLY well, then it will help you.
If you take the AP TEST and do REALLY BAD (still, try not to get a 1), then it won't hurt or help you.</p>
<p>It depends how competitive admissions are at that college. I'm sure doing badly on an AP test hurts your chances at any highly competitive school. But not even taking hte test also hurts them. Odds are though, getting a 1 vs not taking the exam is not going to affect your chances at all.</p>
<p>Well, can't you tell CollegeBoard to cancel sending your schools to the college you selected? I think there is something in that student pack that says you can do that, I think sometime in late May or early June you call some number and cancel your score submission if you know you did horrible and want to save the embarrasment. What a college doesn't know won't hurt them (and mostly you!)</p>
<p>what if you dont send it but you end up getting a 3, if you get admitted can you bring the score later?</p>
<p>What do you mean if you don't send it? If you have it cancelled, no. If you just don't put it on your app, but still have it, yes. I have to send them or cancel them b/c, at my school, they appear on your transcript :(.</p>