<p>if your HS has put it on your transcript, then you will have to deal with that, otherwise, AP scores are not sent until you have accepted admissions at a school and are attempting to get credit for your AP scores. if you end up attending another Tech school, they will never see your score because they don’t give credit. </p>
<p>i believe though you can’t pick which scores to send once you decide to send them, but by then you are already in and admissions doesn’t see the scores :-)</p>
<p>If the highest score in AP calc was a “1”, then you need to seriously look at your other classes and decide whether they are any good. There should be at least a couple of 5’s per class or set of classes. AP calc is probably the easiest AP test that I took. </p>
<p>But an entire class getting 1’s is atrocious; the fact that a school lets this go on suggests that there is a serious lack of quality control in general. You may have to self-study, use the Khan academy and/or any forums which may be associated with that, in order to make sure you actually learn your other subjects. </p>
<p>On a second reading, it looks like you did better on the other AP’s but you did not specify how much better. Let’s just say that for MIT you should be getting 5’s and 4’s to get in, and to be <em>prepared</em>, your science/math AP’s should be 5’s.</p>
<p>ATPmolecule - You may have gotten 4’s and 5’s on other AP courses, but at this point, MIT will have very little reason to trust math instruction at your school. And, unfortunately, you will not be able to take the AP Calc AB exam in time for admissions to see it.</p>
<p>It sucks that you were in the situation you were in, and you can’t do anything to change the past. The question is, what are you going to do now? What are you going to do to prove to MIT that you can handle the math?</p>
<p>I suggest you figure out how to show this. I’ve offered the suggestion of taking a class at a college nearby, if the option is available to you. There are probably other things you can think of.</p>
<p>You ran into a challenge. Doing the default path for most people isn’t going to work for you right now. But you now have the chance to show some initiative. What are you going to do about it?</p>
<p>That’s exactly what MIT wants to know.</p>
<p>@CollegeAlum All of my other APs have been 4s and 5s, and my AP Chem was a 5. I am currently in two AP Physics and AP Calc BC and I will certainly be aiming for 5s. </p>
<p>@Piper thanks for the advice! I am trying to show that by continuing to take AP Calc BC and also a Statistics course. The AP Calc being online.</p>
<p>I would think that high scores on the SAT math section and the math subject test would be enough to show that one can handle the math at MIT.</p>
<p>^Agreed. OP took AP Calc AB as a junior, and is now taking Calc BC. Some people (like me!) get into MIT after taking the equivalent of Calc AB as a senior.</p>
<p>This seems pretty cut-and-dried to me: report the AP Calc AB class on the transcript, report the online BC class in progress, don’t report the AP score. ATPmolecule seems to have this pretty well under control.</p>
<p>While I agree molliebatmit’s input may be sufficient, I was looking to help ATPmolecule stand out above his peers, which is critical in such a competitive application environment.</p>
<p>@jpm50 Taking another class, or just flat out knowing more facts shouldn’t make someone stand out. It isn’t neccisarily the things you know, but how you can learn and use what you know. If someone goes to MIT he/she will learn so much, any extra knowledge above the baseline that the applicant knew will become negligible soon. The thing that will carry someone through college and eventually life(college is one important step but not everything) is your thinking process, and the drive you have. So if you have two applicants one who has taken Multivariable Calculus, ODE, Linear Algebra, and Number Theory, and an applicant who has just taken AP BC Calc(Assume same school). It seems that Applicant one is better suited to be successful at MIT, but that isn’t always the case. Say applicant two was pushed into the path because of placement in math when he/she was 10. From there he/she just learned what he/she could whenever he/she(not neccisarily in class form, or even academic subjects). Whereas applicant one focused on just knowing the information from the classes he/she had taken. Now I would pick applicant two, but MIT might not agree. Even if applicant two went to a state college and applicant one went to MIT, applicant two will likely eventually be more successful than applicant one. So back to your point, jpm50, no taking a higher level class doesn’t make someone more successful, it might correlate, but it isn’t causation.</p>
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I’ll go further than this. Only an incompetent interviewer would ask about AP scores (of course with 2300 interviewers out there, it is highly unlikely, but not impossible to get an incompetent interviewer). Our job as educational councilors is to try to get a picture of the student that does not already show up on the admissions folder. Anything already on the folder, such as grades and scores, is stuff that we are not going to be asking about. That isn’t to say that nothing anywhere in the folder will come up in conversation, just that there is no value to MIT in our asking about it.</p>
<p>@ManWithHeart:
My point had nothing to do with how much math knowledge ATPmolecule has, or trying to get him to know more facts. </p>
<p>Rather, as PiperXP worded more eloquently, it was all about him taking control of his bad situation and doing something about it. He has a unique opportunity to show some leadership in controlling his destiny. I believe that can help. It did for me.</p>