Hey, so this week and next week I’m suppose to be taking all my AP tests. However, today I was diagnosed with Chicken Pox, despite getting the vaccination. I’m not allowed in school for the next two weeks. Does this mean I have to skip all my tests?! I’ve put in so much work this year, and I’ll be terribly upset if I can’t take the tests. Does this look bad for colleges? Help!
Does your school know about this yet? Have you or your parents contacted the school or GC? They need to know this ASAP. Which AP exams were you supposed to take.
From the College Board website:
“If you have an extreme circumstance that prevents you from taking the AP Exam on the regularly scheduled exam date — for example, if you wish to take exams that are scheduled for the same time slot or IF YOU HAVE A SERIOUS ILLNESS — check with your AP Coordinator if your school offers the option to take an alternate exam during the late-testing period.”
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/takingtheexam/exam-policies/late-testing
I’m supposed to take APUSH(This Friday) and AP Lang (The 13th). The school does not know, but I’ll let them know as soon as possible. Is it possible to take the tests in a separate room?
No, you will probably have to take them like @wonderfulreads commented. It will be during a late-testing period, most likely.
How sick are you? I would contact the school and assess if there is any special accommodation if you feel well but are considered contagious. However CP as an older teen is usually really brutal and I cannot imagine if you really do have CP, that sitting an AP test is likely. Have your mum talk with school and see how to arrange late testing. How do you feel and look? Is the diagnosis definite?
https://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/ap/coordinate/late/schedule
Yes, it’s called late testing. No school wants a contagious student with CP on campus, even if it’s in a separate room.
In terms of symptoms(besides red bumps all over my face, legs, and body), I don’t have a fever, but I’m extremely tired. It sucking the life outta me. Given the fact that CP are extremely contagious, I doubt they’d let me in the school.
Sure, assuming it really is CP, stranger things have happened than misdiagnosis. Vaccination probably results in a milder disease, for sure IME of my kids having had CP is that they would have been in no state to be posting or worrying about AP tests LOL.
So it wasn’t chickenpox after all then? What was the mix up in diagnosis?
@Alfonsia I ended up taking both my tests on time. I’m not sure what they were. I either had CP or bed bugs.