<p>Yesterday my child got the Art Studio AP score. It's 3. </p>
<p>It was unexpected. Because my child has received a couple of state art awards since 9th grade. Everybody thought 4 or 5 for my child. We don't know which step went wrong. Even the art teacher was surprised. College board doesn't allow the Art Studio Ap score to be reevauluated. </p>
<p>My child wants to apply top ivy schools. So what we can do now?</p>
<p>Do you think the art AP score will hurt the admission chance?</p>
<p>If you were the admission officer, do you think my child has art talent? </p>
<p>If the AP score doesn't help the admission, do you think cancelling the score is better for my child? </p>
<p>If the score is cancelled, how about those state art awards? Does my child need to omit them too?</p>
<p>Any comments,</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>It’s a 3. You’ll both live. :)</p>
<p>I’ve heard that AP Studio Art is verrrry hard to get a 5. I know a friend who is an exceptional artist, who’s won national awards, scholastics Gold recipient, etc, but she got a 4.</p>
<p>It’s just a 3 – a 3 means “qualified.” It’s not a bad score at all. In addition to that, AP scores aren’t used for admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Your child can send parts of his or her portfolio along with his or her application if his or her school allows it, and then the admissions committee can determine the worth of her work on their own. There is no way the committee will make a judgment on how talented she is with her art simply by one numerical representation of her entire portfolio.</p>
<p>If you want to cancel the score, you can, but I really don’t think it would make a difference either way.</p>
<p>Better a 3 than nothing at all. Shows there was effort. Doubt admissions cares much about a numerical score for a piece of art.</p>
<p>Your son/daughter will not get into college with that 3. I am so sorry.</p>
<p>AP Studio Art is notoriously tough. My school has a great AP track record - everyone who has ever taken AP Chem has gotten a 5, same with Physics C, and for APUSH, which is taken by every single student in the school, the majority get 5s each year. But when it comes to Studio Art, not one person has EVER gotten a 5. 4s and 3s, sure, but never a 5. We’ve had some great artists who have gone on to schools like NYU Tisch, and they obviously never got 5s on Studio Art. It’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Thank you all. We didn’t think it’s so hard to get a 4 or 5. Now we know what to do.</p>
<p>How do you go about cancelling a score anyway? I got a 2 on my AP Lit, and I thought I did AWESOME right after it, but the score obviously shows that it didn’t turn out that way! What are the benefits of cancelling your score?</p>
<p>User2009: Same thing here. My D and several of her extremely talented friends only got 3s on the AP drawing. They were devastated. But as already mentioned, it is extremely hard to score higher on that AP. Bottom line, my D got into her first choice art school. It’s all about the original portfolio your child creates, not a set of drawings based on the college board’s criteria.</p>
<p>really? My friend got a 5, and she has a friend that got the elusive 6 (allegedly Art gives a 6, and this girl got it)</p>
<p>niftydesign: You make me feel much better. Big smile!!!</p>
<p>rsxwheeeeee: Your friend is awesome. Obviously, my child hasn’t reached that point yet.</p>
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<p>The college board may give scores on the rubric of 6’s but only gives scores of 1-5.</p>