<p>Hello. I will be a senior September and just received my Computer Science AP Test score today. Before I took the test, I already realized it was a bad idea but I thought if I just crammed the Barrons book I would do fine.</p>
<p>Turns out I received a grade of 1, the absolute worst grade I can possibly get. I'm just wondering how this will affect my college admission. Obviously it is no boon but will this really hinder me or is it something the colleges will look past. I did not do very well in the AP class itself either so that is of no help.</p>
<p>I came here to look for some insight in this. Please, any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>Colleges don't look at your AP scores in admissions. The AP scores are only for class placement. Doing bad in the AP class, however, could somewhat look bad a little in admissions.</p>
<p>Colleges won't look at your ap test score, but they will look at the grade you recieved in the class. They look at the grade on your high school transcript and if you did bad in the class, they will take that into consideration.</p>
<p>I think what hannah2010 means is on your college app you don't give them your AP scores, so they don't know that you got a 1. They only see your scores after you already got into the school, and are wondering about placement. But, if you did bad in the AP class at school and it shows up on your transcript that you didn't do too hot, then that will look bad for colleges, since that messes with ur GPA and whatnot.</p>
<p>i don't think they'll know if you don't put it down on your common application.</p>
<p>but.. shouldn't ap scores be a factor in the admissions process? b/c they do ask for the exam name and score of exams you have already taken or plan to take.</p>
<p>No. for the final time. ap scores do not play any part in the admissions process. the truth is, unless you write down on your application that you got a 1 on the CompSci test (some colleges do tell you to list your AP scores), they would not know until you are registering for classes at that college</p>
<p>I'm fairly sure that AP scores DO, in fact, play a role in admissions. I can't remember where, but I remember seeing an interview with a Duke admissions person stating that while they expect chiefly 5s from applicants, a few 4s are acceptable as well.</p>
<p>IF you don't report them to a school, they will never know, as they aren't mandatory like SATs or ACTs, BUT...</p>
<p>if your transcript looks like you didn't take any APs, it will look like you didn't take the most challenging courses. Unless you are doing IB or your school flatout doesn't offer any APs.</p>
<p>So yeah, it's good to take them and for colleges to be able to see that you got some 4s & 5s.</p>
<p>i was talking to my college counselor about this, since i was really nervous about my performance on the aps that i took. he said that the scores are completely self reported, but if you took the class and didn't report the score, it might look a little strange--and some colleges would assume you just didn't do well. </p>
<p>if you did do well, you should report your score--it follows the line of thinking with sats, since everyone's taking the same test, everyone is measured on that basis rather than your class grade (since teachers vary in quality/grading). </p>
<p>if i had a 1 on a test, i wouldn't report it, because if colleges assume a bad grade, its better than confirming it.</p>
<p>The 2009 Common App asks you to list AP scores. If you don't list your one bad AP but list others and then have the AP score report sent, it would clearly look as if you are trying to hide the score.</p>
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<p>This is just my opinion, but I don't think AP scores should be a factor, unless you got good scores through self-studying. But for most people the thing that most influences their AP score is the class. If you have a good teacher, you're more likely to get a bad score, and you have a bad teacher, you're also more likely to get a bad score. But for most AP classes, you don't really have a choice for your teacher, because of scheduling, or because there's only one teacher that teaches that class.</p>
<p>But would it effect admissions at all? Would they automatically assume that they were low scores? What if you just didn't want to pay ~80 per test?</p>
<p>IIRC there is a place on the common app where you CAN list your score, and if you don't, it's obviously suspicious. It would make sense that the admissions officers would assume that you simply did poorly, because what other possible reason could you have for not listing your score if you did well?</p>
<p>Your AP scores don't show up on your transcript. The only way a college would know whether you made a score on your APs would be AFTER you matriculated at your chosen school and were using the AP scores for credit. Unless you requested to have your scores sent to school, which i don't understand...</p>