<p>There are two questions on this thread…the OLD one from January that asks about sending a failed online course that the student took but was never reported to the school…and then a second query today regarding sending less than terrific AP scores to colleges.</p>
<p>My point…don’t send ANY AP scores to the colleges until your kid is accepted. The achool where the student matriculates needs to see the AP scores. The others don’t.</p>
<p>Re: the old question…it’s from January almost a year ago, and hopefully resolved.</p>
<p>In my experience, most applications ask for transcripts from all high schools and colleges the student EVER took a class from, so I imagine your D would have to report it to most schools or break that rule. If the applications don’t ask for that info, it gets a bit stickier, but ethically, your D probably should.</p>
<p>ETA: My bad–didn’t see that this thread was so old.</p>
<p>many schools ask for (self-reported) AP scores on their applications, and I am guessing that if a student does not report the scores, they will assume that the scores were low.
There is definitely no harm in self-reporting good AP scores, even if no college will admit that those are used in the admissions process.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no reason reporting 2s and 1s.</p>
<p>I was worried that because my S only took the ACT once, (no SATs, no APs, no SAT IIs either) that schools would think he was being deceptive in not reporting low scores since virtually every top candidate takes multiple tests, multiple times. I even thought about having him write on his apps -“one sitting for one test only.” But, it’s an honor code thing and I figured since we were bring honest, no worries.</p>
<p>I do not believe that is the case in the “real world” (as opposed to here at CC.) My son and his friends took the ACT and the SATs once. My son was a high scorer on both and so were a few of his friends. It never even crossed our minds that schools would think he was being dishonest in submitting his score.</p>
<p>In regard to both the old question and the new one, my advice is to read the question on the application very, very carefully, and then answer it truthfully. Sometimes the actual question is narrower than you might initially think.</p>