How much does a poor AP test score hurt your chances?

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<p>*** are you saying? Killing yourself on a test? The test is just an hour and a half, it's basically the final exam in some schools. Take the AP and you don't need to take finals etc. If you spend a whole year taking an AP class and can't manage to know enough to scrape a decent score it just means either your school has heavy grade inflation, didn't teach you that much, classes were easy, you lack the ability to perform at a high level, or you were lazy.</p>

<p>Also, how do you know you couldn't get credit for a class? I doubt many kids are sure where they're going to get accepted all through high school. Also, most schools offer credit for APs, only top schools require 5s. Even schools which don't grant credit allow you to wave requirements or bump up a level, so your logic is simply flawed. </p>

<p>Low APs aren't the end, but to simply wave it off is simply ignorant and wishful folly. Anything which leaves a mark and will be considered in admissions is something to be taken seriously.</p>

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<p>um, no....look at this scenario</p>

<p>My D has a B in AP stats, the teacher is eh, and in order to get credit for a math class at her college, she would need a 4 or 5 on the test, which she knew was not gonna happen, so why stress of that test and kill yourself prepping, but instead focus on a class you have a good chance of getting a 4 or 5 on</p>

<p>ANd gee, my D took the time to look at her new college, and did some research, and my logic is not flawed, my D was actually very intelligent in how she managed her time, because she did check it out</p>

<p>Getting a 2 in AP stats as a senior is meaningless....think about it real carefully, she would have needed a 4 in order to make any difference at her college in with regards to waving a math requirement, and that was just not going to happen, so she focused on other AP tests, which is not folly, it is pretty smart</p>

<p>So you how do you know if you would get credit? You do some research, that is what smart people do</p>

<p>She is a senior...and guess her friend going to Yale should have taken all those tests just cause even though not one woul he be able to apply to getting credit for, and Yale doesn't ask to see his Senior AP test scores....ah, what a fool he was....guess looking at what Yale wanted, and that he didn't really want to opt out of required classes anyway, guess he should have sat through that useless tests</p>

<p>And the AP stats test was over 3 hours....not 1 1/2 hours, where you get that figure, who knows</p>

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<p>Of the 8 colleges I applied to, only one even asked for AP scores. The others didn't care.</p>

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<p>@ b@r!um: where did you apply?</p>