<p>how important compared to the importance of the sat test are these other tests. i wonder because i did well on my 4 AP tests this yeart and my one last year (physics, calc AB, english lang, and us history:5 and spanish lang: 4). also my sat II score for math was 800. (Also spanish:700, us history: 770, and physics: 730). Will colleges look at these scores to compensate for my more average scores on SAT Reasoning Test? For example i got a 660 on my sat for writing and i wonder if they'll forgive it because of a 5 on english lang. any response is appreciated.</p>
<p>AP does not matter (or much at all)
SAT II matters for all selective schools. SAT matters the most, but the writing section often has lesser weight.</p>
<p>APs don't matter much unless maybe if you get an A in the class and a 1 on the test. and I think your AP scores are very good so no worries there.</p>
<p>but yea almost all colleges will like your good sat 2s.</p>
<p>what if you don't tell schools your AP scores, or only tell them your good ones? Will they wonder why or would they just look at good SAT II results, the SAT and not care?</p>
<p>chinnychinchang: Well the only way they would get fishy about ap scores is if you say your an AP Scholar or one of those awards but don't have enough of the classes or high enough average score. At more competitive colleges, they might think you were avoiding failure if they see you took the class but didn't get a score for a few of the exams. But honestly anything thats a 3 or above won't hurt you at even the top colleges... if you have good SAT 2 scores but a bad AP score on the same subject then most likely they'll think you had the flu that day or you could explain what happened in one of your essays if its really important.</p>
<p>The AP exams were not designed for college admissions; they were designed to determine whether students had the equivalent of college-level knowledge in a subject and deserved "advanced placement" in that subject (hence the name). So they do not matter much at all in terms of admissions, especially since you can only send your official AP scores to one school.</p>
<p>The SAT I and SAT II have different purposes. The SAT I is designed to test basic reasoning skills that are useful and essential in college classes; the SAT IIs are designed to explore your knowledge in a specific area. There's really no comparison there; if the school considers SAT IIs, they will consider them along with everything else you submit (GPA, SAT I scores, extracurriculars, recommendations, and essays) but usually one part of the package does not "cancel out" another. So they won't 'forgive' your 660 on SAT writing (which, by the way, is a good score -- don't fret) but they will take into consideration your other scores, such as doing well in English classes in the past. Your grades in your English classes will probably be much better balancing out your SAT writing score than your AP exam scores.</p>
<p>The math score is probably the thing that will go most towards balancing out. If you got an 800 on the SAT II math but a much lower score (say, 500) on the SAT I reasoning, they'll probably take the higher score as more indicative because the SAT II math is designed to test math knowledge. But the other subjects -- physics, Spanish, history -- they're not comparable because the SAT I doesn't have similar subjects.</p>
<p>Rest assured, they are considering everything in your package. Don't think of it as a math equation -- where a positive can "cancel out" a negative. Think of it more like an essay -- where you can have some minor errors, but if you wrote a generally great cohesive essay you're going to get a good grade.</p>
<p>SAT Subject Scores are very important compared to AP scores</p>
<p>My d school uses AP scores to show how challenging their classes are. In other words kids get 4's and 5's on the AP but often only B/B+ in there AP class. (there have been only a few kids who have had straight A's over the last few years) They post all AP scores over 3 on the transcript.
Many schools post scores on the transcript - you should check and see what your schools policy is.</p>
<p>thank you. and according to a brochure i got from UC Berkeley they said they considered AP test scores as one of there like 10 bullets of things they consider in admissions. do you know if any other private schools have stated they consider them as highly... but from your responses i can assume they haven't</p>