<p>My daughter just got her AP score report, and one score is missing. It's from a test that she took on the make-up date, and (unfortunately) the score is crucial to her placement in her intended major.</p>
<p>We called the College Board and they said they would do something about it, but I have been wondering whether anyone else has had this problem and how quickly the College Board can fix such things. My daughter starts college on August 17; there isn't a whole lot of time for them to fix the problem.</p>
<p>don't worry. many scores come in later and are posted late. my D took AP music theory and her score showed up 2 months later because of the scoring process. Just stay on top of it.</p>
<p>Does your D have to pre-register for courses? I remember my S1 having to do so some time in the summer. If that is so, it might be difficult to adjust the schedule on the basis of new information. Cans she contact the director of undergraduate studies of her intended major and ask for advice? She might wish to sign up for the course for which she hopes to qualify through the AP score, and drop down a level only is the score is not as good as she had hoped. My S found that switching courses even before they had started could be really difficult because they were already fully subscribed. So it's important to get as much clarity as possible from the school while keeping up the pressure on the CB. Good luck.</p>
<p>No, she doesn't have to preregister. Her school does registration just before classes begin. </p>
<p>But if the score is still missing at that point, she has a problem. The course in question (AP Macroeconomics) is a prerequisite for a course she wants to take in her first semester. Moreover, Introductory Macroeconomics (either as taught by the college or in AP form) is a prerequisite for the Economics major, which is her intended major. </p>
<p>If we can't get this straightened out by registration time, which is a month from now, she may need to take Introductory Macroeconomics over, which is absurd, since the telephone score report from the College Board indicates that she got a 5 on that test. The college only requires a 4 to place out of the intro course and urges people with either 4s or 5s to take the AP credit and skip the intro course. So my daughter certainly doesn't want to sit through Introductory Macroeconomics all over again since she KNOWS that she has AP credit; she just can't prove it.</p>
<p>She could call again and record the message, bring the tape over to the registrar and ask to be allowed to skip Macro. But if the score is available over the phone, it sounds like it should arrive in the next few weeks, in time for her to make her class selection.</p>
<p>I think I remember last year that D's late AP was received in the mail about 3 weeks after she got her regular results in the mail. It should still be in time for registration, but if you don't get it by the end of the month, then you can go back to them and be more forceful and get them to send something out to the registrar of her school. Just keep in mind that the College Board people are probably out having a company picnic with all the extra $$ that we've spent by calling in and getting grade reports....they're busy people. :)</p>
<p>Bird dog it. My daughter had a missing score last year. It wasn't even a make-up exam. After lots of calling, she finally received the score in mid-to-late September. The worst part was that we are pretty sure that ETS had lost part of the test as the score and ETS's stories about the missing score were very fishy, but it was too late to do anything about it, and running after them so hard had us exhausted when we needed to be thinking about other things anyway. Other people had trouble with missing reports as well.</p>
<p>This year, she has not heard from any of her AP exams: four regularly scheduled and two that were make-ups due to schedule conflicts. The scores won't do her much good as her college doesn't give credit for them, so they would only help with placement (and that's probably not relevant this semester as it was her 5 on her BC calculus last year that will be the only thing relevant for her projected first semester schedule).</p>
<p>But for the fact that the advanced courses at her high school were APs and her high school required those taking an AP course to take the exam, we would have just saved ourselves the money and time and she would have skipped the tests this year after the hassle last year.</p>
<p>The only way we finally got the missing score last year was by being real pains about it. ETS was just going to refund the money, but we kept insisting that they try to provide a score. This year we are sitting still, waiting to see what happens. No one has the energy to fight ETS again. In fact, we are starting to think that a refund of the fees for all those tests would go far towards buying some textbooks for college.</p>
<p>Marian, do you know for sure that the college hasn't yet received the score report?</p>
<p>There's a small chance it's already in the registrar's office. Are they available to you by phone to ask directly? </p>
<p>Can you request they double-enrol her in both courses (setting herself up for more credits than a human would want to take) but then you'll drop whichever one needs to be dropped as soon as the score appears? </p>
<p>Also, consider calling the econ department for advice, but I like that idea less. Although maybe the econ dept can tell the registrar to let you register for both classes for the time being, which a registrar might not be able to do without permission from them. </p>
<p>Here;s my thinking: I recall from our own phone-in report around 7 days ago that they mentioned then (by computer voice) that "scores are available except for make-ups." Then, because we had a different glitch to work out (getting the computer to recognize our caller identity without the social security number..long, irrelevant story) we had to push a button to resolve that, so ended up speaking to a Real Person.
The Person volunteered info that we hadn't asked for, that "your scores have all been sent to X College on X (prior) date."
So, thinking about that, it means that if you, Marian, heard a phone report of the score, perhaps it's already been sent to the college, if not to you?
Also, my above pathway if repeated could get you to the helpful talking Person. Just redo that by trying to dial in for that $8 phone report again, and then act as though you['re having trouble getting them to recognize your Social Security number or test package number. Press whatever button that calls for, and continue until you're told to press for a representative.
There may be much easier ways to reach a representative. Anyway, that's the question to ask. I hope it works out for you.</p>
<p>And does your D's college post anything about their test score status, registration eligibility, or anything to do with all that, on her personal acccount online? Ask her to root around in her own setup if the college puts any of that stuff online. (Ours did, but previous 2 didn't.)</p>
<p>FYI, At D's school, the AP credit shows up under "Unofficial Transcript" online. (I would never have thought to look there, but found it --where else?? on CC, on the AP forums. ) Good luck---let us know how it works out for your D.</p>
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<p>This is the last resort -- unless the enrollment computer refuses to enroll her in the more advanced course without proof of completion of the prerequisite.</p>
<p>When AP scores are processed, they appear online on students' records at my daughter's college. She has checked. They aren't there yet.</p>
<p>We will have to hope that the College Board straightens this one out quickly. I must say that, unlike some of the other horror stories that I have been hearing, they straightened out one previous problem for us very efficiently. On that occasion, they had accidentally put a space in the midd le of my daughter's name (just as I did with the word middle earlier in this sentence). This meant that her AP score report that year did not include any of her previous scores -- because CB thought she was two different people. We called about that one and got a corrected score report within two weeks.</p>
<p>I think it's likely, as p3t suggests, that the college already has her scores. I'd check into it though. No way should she take the intro course. Have her register for the more advanced one and stay on it until the score gets reported. When I think of the $$ we all hand over to CB, these glitches are annoying. We still haven't received son's scores.</p>
<p>Last year my son simply enrolled in the higher level course. He got an email
that he was going to be dropped because he didn't have the prerequisite.
He responded by email that his AP score was a 5, and they said OK.
The university never even asked for the official report. So go ahead and
register for what you want; you can deal with it later if they question it.</p>
<p>My son was two different people because he put the wrong birthday down one year. :rolleyes: We thought we had fixed it. We haven't seen his scores yet but the college has them. However they only seem to have this year's scores so I guess he's reverted to being two people again.</p>
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Last year my son simply enrolled in the higher level course. He got an email
that he was going to be dropped because he didn't have the prerequisite.
He responded by email that his AP score was a 5, and they said OK.
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<p>This may work. However, in my daughter's case, we also have to be careful about one more thing. The course in question (AP Macroeconomics, which is the equivalent of the college's Introductory Macroeconomics) is a prerequisite for the econ major. And econ is her intended major. Even if the college allows her into more advanced economics courses despite the apparently missing prerequisite, the rules will not allow them to admit her to the major without proof that she has taken Introductory Macroeconomics in one form or the other. So we are going to need documentation from the College Board eventually.</p>