<p>"There is no school that requires AP scores for admission. You don't even send your official score reports until you enroll in a specific school, and then, only if you want credit for the classes."</p>
<p>Is this true? If you self-report a 5 for an AP, but don't want to skip out of the class, do you still have to send an Official AP Score Report to the university?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help. </p>
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Yes, with the exceptions being the very few schools that accept AP scores in lieu of SAT Subject tests.
No. However, for some schools in the HYPS stratosphere, some honors classes have a 5 on the AP as a prerequisite.</p>
<p>Thank you. So, a college can NEVER force you to send your Official AP Score Report, correct? Unless you choose to get credit, the report isn’t required? </p>
<p>AFAIK, I don’t see how a college can require you to send in an AP score report.</p>
<p>That’s true. I’m assuming you can opt to not skip out of a class even if you do have the AP score to do so? </p>
<p>Correct, although you would forfeit the AP credit if you had sent in the score.</p>
<p>Do you mean that if you choose to send the Official Report, you must skip out of the eligible classes? </p>
<p>No, what I mean is you can take the class, but you will lose the AP credit. You can’t receive both AP credit and course credit for the same course.</p>
<p>Right, so is receiving AP credit is the equivalent of placing out of certain introductory courses at the university?</p>
<p>It depends on the university and the course(s) in question.</p>
<p>Alright. Thanks for your help! </p>
<p>I also want to clarify - some schools like Dartmouth no longer give course credit for high scores on AP exams. However, they will allow you to skip certain lower-level courses and in some cases, the AP course will fulfill a certain prerequisite. But you can’t “graduate early” or take fewer courses. On the other hand, other colleges will actually give course credit for certain AP scores (e.g., a 5 on an AP Calc exam). So if you have taken four AP courses, for example, and gotten a 5 on each one, then you might already have a semester’s worth of college courses completed before even enrolling at the college. </p>