<p>i feel upset..</p>
<p>what if u want to retake it next year? we have the IB thing, and it distracted me so much from AP, that finally i ended up with nothing.</p>
<p>APs are not college-entrance exams; as such, they will not (should not) hurt you. Your grades in the course matter a great deal - if you get an F (or even a C) in AP calc, you'll never get into the Ivy League, MIT, etc., regardless of your AP score. </p>
<p>The tests are less important - you self-report all of them, so you can just leave them blank if you want to. Since you are not required to take the test if you take the course, colleges will not necessarily think "Oh, he must have bombed that one" if you leave it blank. You are required to send your full AP report to your college (once you get in and decide to go), but they cannot revoke acceptance for having AP scores that suck - they can only revoke your acceptance if you lie about your AP scores (as in putting down a three instead of a one; leaving it blank is fine). </p>
<p>Thus, failing an AP exam really can't hurt you. However, they can REALLY help if you pass them. My QPA fell from a 4.3 to a 3.5 junior year. On an interview, the lady asked me about this, and I said "I was more interested in learning the material than in padding my grade. It's clear that I did learn the material, because a got a 5 in calc, chem, physics, us, and a 4 in psych, on my five AP classes)." That answer - plus my 4.3 QPA the following year as I juggled 8 APs - gave me a full scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh, where I am currently a freshman.</p>
<p>here's a suggestion don't send your AP scores until senior year</p>
<p>ap scores r just for placement. theyre used to see how far colleges can push u ahead so u dont have to take that class again. the grades r used to see how u fare in a college class, but to a certain degree because of grade inflation</p>
<p>what about the AP tests you take as a Senior?</p>
<p>if you do really well on those exams (4 or 5), will they help you at all?</p>
<p>I am just wondering because you hear back from colleges by april and you get your ap scores in july...</p>
<p>Crashingwaves said that .....
"if you have low ap scores and high ap class grades, adcoms will think, "grade inflation!" this is especially true if this is the case in many subjects."</p>
<p>What if my cumulative (Unweighted GPA) is still really high, and I still have high unweighted grades in my Ap classes, but I do poorly on my AP tests.</p>
<p>I worked really hard for the classes, but when the time came for AP tests, I was drained from SATs, distracted by sports, etc., and didn't study at all. </p>
<p>any thoughts?</p>
<p>ap scores as a senior really dont matter except for placement. I got 5 5's and 1 4 this year and it didnt do anything for me except get me out of a lot of core requirements.</p>
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As for if you get a four, i would say it definetly wouldnt hurt, but it probably wont look great to the top UCs
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since when was a 4 seen as poor? 4 is roughly equivalent to a B in a college courseat least five of my friends got into UCLA with just one 5 out of four to five tests, and actually...some of them never even got 5s. and at least two of my friends got into Cal with only one 5 (in different tests...one got it in Spanish Language, the other in US History i think). </p>
<p>of the 4 tests i'd taken over the last two years, i've gotten three 5s and a single 4 in English Composition...i personally felt like that was pretty good to me, so should i feel less secure about it...? and just this year, i got a 4 in Microeconomics (a class i took in one semester with a teacher who was the athletics director and thus not always there/hardly ever cared/didn't assign any homework...at all). is the bar really getting so high where only the absolute tops is considered "good"?</p>
<p>i don't think APs play TOO heavily into acceptance, as others have already said. it's just icing on the cake, but not a deciding factor. in either case, they really do come in handy! i just registered for my Fall classes at USC and so far tested out of my Chem requirement for engineering, saving me the hassle of actually having to think about chem again, and 2 hours of lab time each week. and i'm slated to test out of two more classes. it doesn't seem like much, but that's freeing up a nice slot of time for my minor. not to mention giving me 20 elective units besides the 12 going toward my GE requirements.</p>
<p>certain colleges ASK for AP scores on the apps so only then does "hurt or help" . If you get 4s and 5s put that down on your app regardless of whether the app asks.</p>
<p>Can i take the same test next year again?</p>
<p>AP scores really dont matter all that much. I had 3 5's when i applied, but my GPA wasnt so hot (im kinda lazy and i go to the 3rd ranked HS in california) I didnt get into either berkeley or LA. 4's are fine for any UC. It's really all about the GPA</p>
<p>They have very little effect. However, they <em>should</em> have a much bigger effect. They are the best predictor of college success.</p>
<p>In the 2006 edition of US News & World Report's America's Best Colleges article titled "Where Will They Get In?", five admissions officers were presented with six different hypothetical applicants. Sarah attends an elite suburban public school, has a 4.5 weighted GPA, ranks in the top 3 percent, has 760-CR/690-M/800-W SATs, got 5's in AP USH, English, Spanish, and got A's in AP Calc, Chem, and Physics but she did not take the AP exams for those. And then there's stuff about her ECs, essays, and recs. Insterestingly, one of the recommendations seems concerned that Sarah overtaxed herself. Ann Wright, vice president of enrollment at Rice University said Sarah's "failure to take the math and science AP tests would definitely be up for discussion."</p>
<p>Given that, I don't know how adcoms would know whether you just didn't feel like reporting your scores or you actually didn't take the exams. But that's how they feel about the absence; it's worthy of discussion.</p>
<p>I got a 2 on my AP Bio exam (I was stumped on the free-response...shoulda studied more). But I got a 4 on my AP US exam and I got a 4 on my AP World test last year.</p>
<p>How does that look to a UC/CSU, USC, Univ of Arizona, ASU, LMU, among others?</p>
<p>This is a little long, but I'd really appreciate it if you read through it all and helped me out. </p>
<p>Does anybody know how to take an AP course online? I Googled it, and it's not like there's a specific site (like collegeboard, etc.) that you can do it from. </p>
<p>Has anyone here taken an AP online?</p>
<p>My dilemna is this: I might want to major in biology in college, but I'm not totally sure. Regardless, I'd like to be able to take interesting classes that could help me decide where I want to end up, and in order to take interesting classes, I want to place out of crappy intro courses. But I didn't realize that APs might be important until now (I'm going to be a senior), and I didn't study at all for the APs I've already taken so far. Now, I haven't taken AP Bio yet, but I can't take it next year because I've already got a packed sched. (I'm taking another science course that I'm more interested in)....</p>
<p>Anyway, I want to take the AP Bio Exam and hopefully place out of an intro to bio course in college, BUT I don't want to take the actual class...I'd rather take the course online and do everything on my own (I'm good at science, so it should work out)......</p>
<p>some more questions (thanks to anyone who's still reading):
-So, what are the online AP courses like (how do they work?)?<br>
-Has anyone here taken bio?
-Is bio (or any other online course) tough? Is it worth it to take it online (pros/cons?)
-Is it possible to take an AP course online even if your school offers it? (i.e. does your school have to not offer it/ do you have to be homeschooled, etc., in order to "qualify" for an online course?</p>
<p>thanks a lot in advance for all your help</p>
<p>like others have said, bad ap scores really wont hurt you. i took 5 ap classes in high school, only took 1 ap test and got a 2 on it (apush), and was able to get into a highly ranked lac.</p>
<p>dont sweat it.</p>
<p>how can AP scores not hurt? if you get a 3 on ap calc but manage to get A+s for both semesters, colleges will probably think your gpa is messed up. but of course the ap tests that you take your senior do not matter.</p>
<p>Anything lower than 5 is bad.
4 is bad.
3 is very bad.
2 is atrocious
1 is arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.</p>
<p>So bootup, what did you get on Calc and Chem?</p>
<p>wow...lol...you all know that with AP scores, it just makes you take the much harder classes instead of the ones you usually take...which can be good...or bad depending on your work ethic, haha</p>
<p>You don't need to have taken an AP course to take the AP test. My son's high school does not offer AP Chemistry, but has an Advanced Chemistry class, which he took this year. The teacher at the beginning of the year said "This is not an AP class, and the course is not designed to help you pass the AP exam." He actively discouraged kids from taking the AP Chem test -- I think my son was the only one who did. He got a 5.</p>
<p>So you don't necessarily need to take an "AP" class to take and pass an AP test. I don't have experience on on-line classes as preparation for the AP tests. There are plenty of AP study books out there. The AP test literature gives examples of the text books the tests are based on.</p>