Impact on admissions

<p>Do colleges use AP exam scores as a factor toward admissions or strictly for awarding credit?
Thanks, and sorry if this thread is in the wrong place....</p>

<p>bump</p>

<p>I REALLY want to know the answer to this.</p>

<p>Ah! A fellow paranoid student!</p>

<p>I think it is a TINY aspect of the application. Pretty much insignificant… One 2, etc. would probably have little impact.</p>

<p>Well it varies between schools. I remember reading that one top school (stanford maybe?) doesn’t even look at the exam grade because they believe that the AP teacher is much more qualified to evaluate your proficiency in the subject.</p>

<p>I dont think top schools will use it because not everyone required to take the same AP tests.</p>

<p>Which one do you like more?</p>

<p>A person that took 5 AP classes and got 5s on every single AP test.</p>

<p>A person that took 10 AP classes and got 8 5s, 1 4, and 1 2 on the 10 tests.</p>

<p>People are going to say, well that second person got a 2 on an AP test…however, he took 5 more and got 3 more 5s…</p>

<p>So when people say that 1s and 2s are a bad score…well let a person that didnt even take the class take that test and theyll be guaranteed a 1 for sure. </p>

<p>The only impact of a low grade is that it will make your “AP class” on your high school transcript not seem like an AP class. However, if you get like 5s on your other 5 AP classes that year, then it doenst matter—it just will be like your schedule was 5 AP classes and that nonAP class that is called an AP class.</p>

<p>Yea hopefully colleges won’t care that much…since I’m pretty sure the AP Spanish Exam I took today didn’t come out well…</p>

<p>How important are AP for Internationals from a traditionally non-AP country?</p>

<p>I think it should matter, but I don’t think it really does. But four 5s are better than four 3s.</p>