<p>How important is AP score for UCLA admissions because i only took 3 and got 2's in all of them. Does a person who has no ap's have the same chance of getting in compared to those who do?</p>
<p>ucla claims that the AP scores don't have a bearing on admissions, but they still request your score in them for some reason. as to your other question, of course taking AP courses does look like ur taking initiative and challenging yourself thereby helping you in the admissions process.</p>
<p>If it helps the situation any, I took 3 AP tests last year and got 2's on all of them, and UCLA still accepted me.</p>
<p>scores shouldn't have any bearing on admissions. even if they did, they still wouldn't be as significant (to the UC's) as TAKING the AP course itself, which shows a rigorous course schedule and gives you a GPA boost at the same time. </p>
<p>the UC adcoms are also aware that some high schools (e.g. LAUSD) are poorly equipped to prepare their students to pass the AP exam, so they dont hold that against you, and to make it fair, they dont told it against anyone cuz it's not the high school that's on trial here. </p>
<p>some good AP's to pass though, are english and foreign language, because they can place you out of some undergrad requirements. and recommended to pass your calc too if you're planning to major in science/math. most of the other AP's just give you elective credit.</p>
<p>When you pass an AP and it says it gives you unassigned units what does that mean? Do you get to choose what the units cover? or it's basically useless?</p>
<p>WOW thats amazing Kalasin, but I bet your SAT scores were great?</p>
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<p>that means they are elective units that help boost your class standing (help you reach the necessary 180 units to graduate), but they don't fulfill any requirements such as GE's or major. </p>
<p>for example, if you need 180 units to graduate
your major + GE + other requirments = 140 units
then pretend you have 40 unassigned units from AP, those 40 can be used to boost your 140 up to 180, and then you can graduate without taking any more elective courses</p>
<p>Not quite. My SATs averaged around 2000 (ACT around 30).
My GPA wasn't that great either. I'm not sure how I got in, anymore. </p>
<p>So, there's hope for everyone! :)</p>
<p>ohh okay. I guess it does nothing for me then cause I'm doing EE and we need 180 to graduate. So it can't really help me there.</p>