<p>How much do very good colleges, like, say, the lowest Ivy Leagues (Cornell is all I think I could really get into) or Johns Hopkins, care about AP scores? I took the AP Statistics exam today and didn't find it that easy, although not too hard either. My guess is anywhere from a 2 to a 4, more likely a 3, and hopefully a 4. Last year I took the AP Psychology and AP European history exams and got 4s on both (expected a 1 on euro, so I was happy with that). I plan to study medicine or engineering in college.</p>
<p>No offense, but unless your a valadictorian, i can assure you that your not getting into the Ivy leagues…
Im hoping for a 4 or 5 on statistics, and im planning on going to a state, or a lower UC.
They dont care that much, but if you get a 2 or a 3 itll prob hurt you. But if u arent doing well on the AP test, that means u prob dont have an A in the class which would hurt you even more</p>
<p>^You don’t know that he won’t get into the ivy leagues, even if he isn’t the validictorian. I hear that ap exams may have a little impact on admissions, but overall, they won’t affect them much.</p>
<p>Yeah Chocolate, chill. I think when it comes to admissions, AP Exam scores matter very little. Adcoms care more that you took the classes.</p>
<p>Ya. And besides, 4’s are good AP scores. That will definitely help you if anything.</p>
<p>Yeah, there are schools who send 50+ people to Ivies every year… Not every one of those 50+ people are valedictorians. Heck, our school is sending a handful of kids to Ivies this year, none of whom are val/sal.</p>
<p>I would assume that a good AP score can help; I don’t know how much a bad score can hurt, though…</p>
<p>AP scores do not matter as much as you think. I think that your GPA, what courses you took, and the SAT score are important. Unless you get 1s or 2s, you’ll be fine. couple of 3s is okay, but try to get 4 or 5 for most of your ap exams</p>
<p>Oh really…I didn’t know they even saw the damn AP scores until after you got in and applied for credit. I shouldn’t have winged my AP Exams last year T.T</p>
<p>I don’t think these guys know what they’re talking about. Basically every college gives or does not give college credit based on your AP scores. Doing well or completely bombing AP exams has no effect on admissions to colleges. Most people don’t even send their AP scores in until after they are admitted to a college anyways.</p>
<p>they are very important</p>
<p>got 3’s on several of my AP exams. i still got into princeton, and several other ivy league schools.</p>
<p>Well vijpenguin93- Who would have a better chance of getting into Harvard- a student who takes 6 ap classes and get’s straight A’s and all 5’s, or a student who takes the same amount of ap classes with the same grades but gets 1’s? Obviously the person with 5’s.</p>
<p>Someone I know (straight-A student) took 14 AP exams and did well in all (I don’t know the specific scores but I’m sure nothing lower than a 4, probably mostly 5), and she did not get into any of her top choices (Ivies/stanford/etc)…you never know</p>
<p>One of my wife’s students got a 1 on the APUSH exam a couple years ago. This student was in the top 5-6% of his class, and his SATs were in the mid-600s per section. He had no hooks. Still got into Cornell. I think it is ridiculous to suggest that getting into an Ivy League school is impossible if you get a 3 or 4 on an AP exam.</p>
<p>To the hypothetical Harvard situation- it would probably come down to the other parts of the application, which are probably more important. </p>
<p>The answer is that they are important for a student who is relying almost completely on academics (top 5%, high SATs, etc), but if your application has something else they can look at, they will not pay much attention to your AP scores. Obviously a higher score is better and failing will not look good, but you can get in without doing well.</p>
<p>There’s this one chick in my class who idolizes Ivy Leagues and insists that “There is NOW WAY you can get into an Ivy League if you get anything lower than a 5 on an AP exam.” “4 is so bad.” Clearly that isn’t true. She annoys me so much lol.</p>
<p>Puggly I don’t think that’s true at all. AP exams are well known to be used only for college credit. They are also said to not be any type of determining factor for college admissions. Most people send AP exams into the colleges after admission anyways. Also I doubt people who get 1 on AP exams send their scores in so I don’t really understand why your using that as a situation.</p>
<p>A well rounded student that does music,art,sports, and has grades that are at least a 3.75 gpa, a 2000 or above on SAT, then you will most likely get into an Ivy League school. Schools care more about a well rounded student than a student with 5’s on every ap exam and 4.0s through high school that does nothing else. If you are well rounded and</p>
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<p>that’s a little too optimistic. there are tons of kids who have 4.0s, perfect SATs, have gotten national awards, and have awesome extracurriculars and still get rejected. having a 3.75 gpa and 2000 SAT does not mean you will most likely get into an ivy. look at the acceptance rates - there are very few things you can do to ensure that you will “most likely” be accepted, because in reality, you will most likely be rejected. they have thousands upon thousands of qualified applicants. sometimes it’s not because you aren’t good enough, it’s because someone was better in their eyes.</p>
<p>i’m not saying that there aren’t people who have less than perfect grades and test scores who have gotten in, but the nature of college admissions, as far as top tier schools are concerned, makes it difficult to say “do this and this and this and you’ll get into harvard!” there’s no formula or certainty to it; you do what you can and hope that it’s enough! i’ve had many friends who have had their hearts set on dartmouth or yale, all with great stats and ecs, and they’ve been rejected. most of them have gone on to attend schools that are better fits for them anyway.</p>
<p>but yeah, doing well on your ap exams can only help. doing poorly on one or two won’t kill you, but i do think that it might reflect badly on you if colleges see a bunch of 3’s if you’ve gotten high A’s in all of the classes.</p>
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