i have some last minute questions before i start the college application process!
Will colleges see your AP test results from junior year (Ivys, top LACs?)
Also how detrimental will it be if you bomb you AP exam (but did well in class and SAT ll)? Is there any way to “hide it”? I just hear some of my senior friends commenting that they never even summited their AP test scores (until after they were accepted) from junior year, even if they got 5s.
My school only ranks the top 5% or top 10% (stops ranking beyond that). If I do not make the cut, will colleges be aware that I was not ranked in the top 10% (That our schools even RANKS AT ALL)? Or will they simply see a “NO RANK” note?
What’s more significant? An on-campus interview or the interview with an alumni?
If you jump 400-500 points between your first and third sat tests, is that looked upon as suspicious? or as a lot of hardwork well paid off?
Are you allowed to read your reccomendation from your guidence counselor? Do a lot of people do? I know it is recommended that you do not read your reccomendations from your teachers.
Is there any way to get into Amherst’s Diversity House thing? What are the qualifications?
Please answer whatever you can! These were some random, lingering questions…it would put my mind to ease if I know the answers once and for all. And I promise I’ll stop being obsessive!! You know I’m actually thrilled to start my apps…Go Class of '06!
<p>1) Your AP results exist from whenever you've taken them, including junior year. Usually people don't send official score reports until they finish their senior year APs (in which case it's free, because you just specify which college you want to see them when you take them). There is no reason not to report junior year scores, and your friends are really silly for not reporting fives, nevermind when they were earned. A 5 is a 5 is a 5! Report any scores that they ask for (usually only ones that would satisfy their reqs, often 4's or 5's). </p>
<p>2) Your school would know more about this than anyone here would. What it says on your official transcript (if you haven't seen it yet, GET A COPY! This is an extremely important document; catch any errors and educate yourself about it now) is what the colleges will see. Also be aware that there is a "school report" your counselor sends out (get a copy of one of these, too) which might say somewhere on it that it only ranks the top 5% and 10%.</p>
<p>3) I never did an interview, so I can't answer this. My gut would be to say on-campus if it's conducted by an ad com; alumni are more variable. </p>
<p>4) Could go either way. Depends also on the time between exams. If we're talking freshman year versus senior year, well, that happens with good study. If we're talking January of your junior year and February of your junior year, it might look a little suspcious and be worthy of a note (though collegeboard occasionally investigates big jumps for fear of cheating on their own).</p>
<p>5) You shouldn't, especially not the one that needs to go to the school. If you don't waive your right to see the recommendation (you do have that right!), the admissions officers might wonder what it is you thought the counselor would say about you. Of course, if you ask the counselor if you could see a copy and s/he allows you to, by all means. :) I read my counselor's, but it was an "accident" because I ended up not sending one of the sealed, signed envelopes to a college.</p>
<p>1) I didn't send my AP scores because it did not ask for official AP scores to be sent and it's $15 per report. Schools do, however, ask you to self-report AP scores. It is possible to cancel AP scores or something, check the collegeboard site for that. While I didn't send AP scores to my schools, it did show up on my school transcript, or should have. My school forgot to order the stickers for my junior year so only my (one) sophomore year AP was on the transcript. I suggest that anyone gets an unofficial transcript from the counselor's office the beginning of senior year and makes sure everything that should be on it is. Mine had a bunch of errors; one friend of mine had a 10 for an exam he got 100 on or something and it dropped his class rank 20 places.</p>
<p>2) I think most applications ask that if the school doesn't rank, they report what percentile you are in, so they will somehow know if you're not in top 10%.</p>
<p>5) It probably depends on the guidance counselor and your school. My school insists on sending official transcripts directly out, and guidance counselor requests are always turned in at the same time, so no one at my school sees them. On the other hand, I waived my right to see the recommendation my APUSH teacher wrote, but she still sent me a copy of it (e-mail) and asked me to proofread it. Another teacher I had wrote me a recommendation for a scholarship and asks the students to be there when he writes it so he doesn't leave anything out and so he actually gets it done.</p>