<p>Some people are saying that colleges don't look at AP scores for admission. Others say that AP scores that are bad w/ high grades in the class mean grades inflation. But how does that matter if admissions officers dont even look at it for admission? I mean, it really doesnt matter if you're going to Harvard what your AP scores are because they won't give you any credit anyways.</p>
<p>You self-report the scores. For the billionth time. Harvard/the local community college can't look you up with the College Board. Everyone tells you this. Obviously it will look awful odd when you took X class in school but you didn't take the AP X exam, but whatever. It <em>will</em> look bad if you report that AP World 3 and got a 98 in the class, it makes your school look like its inflated (which it probably is if that pair is true).</p>
<p>And Harvard does give AP credit. Please stop posting these grandiose dreams about Harvard, like they go around researching high schools and taking their grades, and they're so amazing they don't accept APs. It makes you sounds ridiculous.</p>
<p>"researching high schools and taking their grades"
what?</p>
<p>In another thread, he posted that "Harvard" would understand his school didn't inflate grades because they "Harvard and other schools went around to high schools doing research", and would see that other kids in the class had 98s and got 5s...totally ignoring that it's impossible for them to get over a 100, so that doesn't disprove inflation anyway.</p>
<p>I read on Harvard and some other sites that their admission counselors go around the country researching school districts.</p>
<p>How else can they prove that an elite district in Texas is better than some school in for example Arkansas?</p>
<p>They know which schools have more competition and which don't.</p>
<p>For your sake, I hope they don't connect your application with your account on CC.</p>
<p>Yeah, they do... the top colleges have regional representatives that know the ins and outs of the high schools in their area.</p>
<p>For more reading:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=209938%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=209938</a></p>
<p>then why do they ask you if you want to send scores to colleges then...not for admissions but to get credit?</p>
<p>See, panasonic knows what I'm talking about.</p>
<p>If you said they had regional counselors, that would be different. You claimed they went around and got grades...</p>
<p>I self reported the 2 3's I had on AP exams (the only 2 i'd taken...US and Euro), and I don't really feel it hurt me on applications. I think for every applicant it may be different, and it depends what it comes down to for each student. I got into a reach school even with bad scores (and a bad SAT score that I didn't realize was already on the back of my transcript).</p>
<p>Many schools put AP scores on transcripts. The transcripts from my school contained all of my AP scores. So they're not always self-reported.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure your school would take them off if you ask, mine did, but I didn't ask for it. He has to look into this himself, hes making a fool of himself asking the same people the same question multiple times.</p>
<p>what if you have taken 5 ap exams, but only took 3 ap courses at school. The other two were self studied. How would colleges look at it.
-Example, i self studied ap biology during my freshman year and AP psychology during my junior year.</p>
<p>They'd hate it! Only dumb kids self-study.</p>
<p>why would "only dumb" kids self study. Some of the ap courses are not even offered at my school. Plus i got five fives</p>
<p>"They'd hate it! Only dumb kids self-study."</p>
<p>Yup. Because colleges frown upon students who have enough independency to study by themselves, yet score high on APs. I mean, why go to school if you can learn by yourself?</p>
<p>So you guys are saying that every top college has a list of hundreds of thousands of teachers and a chart for every teacher with every student's grade in comparison to their AP score?</p>
<p>Yes, flippy, jk, but regional admins usually know the schools in their area pretty well, "pretty well" usually entails that besides the school report, they also know which classes within the school are considered hard/easy, and even which teachers are considered hard/easy.</p>