<p>I'm taking several ap classes this year and have already been accepted into college. Since I take the exam in May and receive the scores in the summer, will it be too late to send them then?
If it doesn't count, I would not bother taking the AP exam..</p>
<p>No. What happens is you take the test, and submit the scores to the college you are going to for free. Then, when you go to orientation, they have the scores, and then they exempt you as you need to be.</p>
<p>For me, my orientation is before the AP reading even takes place, so they are going to assume I passed and then if I didn’t make up the classes I would have been exempt from second semester.</p>
<p>You do still need to send the AP scores this summer --take the exams! Not only do the AP scores help with placement in certain classes (or make you exempt from a course, as the pp pointed out), but some schools will give you college credit for an AP exam score of 4 or 5. Not necessarily all the schools give you credit, but many do, and that can save you thousands of dollars as well (or your parents ;).</p>
<p>Actually, there is a place you can put on the AP packet to just send the scores to whatever college at the time - no charge.</p>
<p>When I taught, some of my freshman advisees were still getting their scores sent in the fall, during registration!</p>