<p>I was accepted into UCLA, but I made 2 small mistakes on my UC apps. 1: I put my current residence as my birth place (my birth place is still in California). 2: I wrote that I was taking AP Physics B instead of AP Physics Mechanics exam. If I told them this, would it change anything?</p>
<p>Call the admissions office immediately. You need to let them know before they find out themselves. Don't think it should be a big deal though. They're not going to rescind your acceptance for 1 class.</p>
<p>it's not the class, i told them the wrong ap exam i was taking</p>
<p>You should tell them but they don't really care whether you take the test or not.</p>
<p>If it's the AP test, you have even less to worry about. Just let them know that you made a few mistakes on your application and you should be good.</p>
<p>what happens if we signed up for AP exams but ended up not deciding to take them?</p>
<p>You wasted your 83 dollars then.</p>
<p>Yep, you lose money, but otherwise nothing else.</p>
<p>My ap chemistry teacher told us she had a student once who got into UCLA, while taking 4 AP classes her senior year. That student didn't take any of the AP exams, and apparently UCLA rescinded her admission.
BUT, my teacher was telling this to us around the time we were supposed to sign up for the exams in February, so i dunno if she was trying to scare us into taking the exam X_X</p>
<p>on your current residence part, are you from out of state but put down you live in california? because I think OOS and In state changes standards</p>
<p>i dont think u should worry about such things...</p>
<p>how do they check up on stuff like that ne ways</p>
<p>i was born in north cal, but i put down that i was born is so cal. i lived in so cal since i was 3.</p>
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That student didn't take any of the AP exams, and apparently UCLA rescinded her admission.
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<p>Your slick teacher is pulling a quick one on you</p>
<p>Your mistakes aren't significant. You should correct your birthplace, but they could care less about the AP exams (someone posted about this before and they contacted the office and was told it doesn't matter so you can try to find that thread again; also, some people take the AP exams and end up not reporting it to the university so they can retake those courses since you are actually barred from taking certain courses if you AP exam covers that course)</p>
<p>Yup, agree. It is in your teacher's best interest that everyone takes the AP exam, esp for her class. She has her own agenda. I mean, if your teacher is willing to give you a perk for taking the exam, then I'd sign up for it. Whatever you get on the exam is up to you (whether you want to decide or not). You'll be graduating soon, so it doesn't really matter.
It has no effect on your admissions status.</p>
<p>jyancy is 100% correct. The Chem teacher made that up to get kids to take the exam. The UC schools just care that you're taking the hardest courses, not whether you take the test for college credit. Here's what it says on the ucla website about the factors considered for admission:
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4) Performance on standardized tests, including the required SAT Subject Tests, the ACT plus Writing or SAT Reasoning, and any Advanced Placement or IBHL examinations the applicant may have taken. Applicants who have not had the opportunity to take Advanced Placement or IBHL courses or who have chosen not to take the examinations for these courses will not be disadvantaged.
<a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/FrSel.htm%5B/url%5D%5B/quote%5DWave">http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Prospect/Adm_fr/FrSel.htm
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Wave</a> that under the teacher's nose!!</p>
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you are actually barred from taking certain courses if you AP exam covers that course
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<p>I do not believe this is accurate. While schools may give you credit for passing APs with a certain score they will not bar you from taking the class if you prefer to do so. It is totally your option to request credit for AP exams - just as it is their option to say no. I don't know of any school that would force you to take the credits. My D for instance is eligible for certain credits - she will probably take the math ones as she is burned out on math but may decide not to take the bio ones as that is her major and she may want to redo the material (this is all supposition on my part ;) )</p>
<p>OP your errors do not appear significant to your acceptance. If you had dropped a required class you might have had a problem but you did not drop a class. Even if you did not take the AP test I doubt they would care - taking a different physics one - they really won't be worried. Your place of res for the last few years is far more important than where you were born.</p>
<p>When I gave my grades in the application, I gave them on a 0-100 scale, even though they show up as an A+, A-, etc. I wasn't sure what to do since the A-B-C-D-F scale didn't allow for pluses or minuses. I went with the numbers after my guidance counselor told me to. The numbers I gave are all within the range of the actual grades. Is this a problem?</p>
<p>swimcat, the policies are different from college to college. At UCLA, passing with a 4 or 5 on the AP Calc BC exam will prohibit you from taking Calc 3A and 3B or 31A and 31B for credit unless they have changed the policy. Passing out of the AP English (either) exam with 4+ will prohibit you from taking Eng Comp 3. You don't get to pick and choose which exams from your senior year you want to count or don't count- you either let UCLA see them all or see none from that year.</p>
<p>Those are the only 2 exams I know of. The rest transfer as just empty elective units (don't count for anything except for minimum units if you need them to graduate early; with exceptions to foreign language and history requirement)</p>
<p>And thekid: how did you know your exact percentages and why did your counselor tell you to do that even though your school uses A-F scale?? You probably will want to call the administration office to sort that out with them since they will eventually get your actual transcript.</p>
<p>My counselor told me to use the 0-100 scale since the letter grades are based off of a number we get. I figured if my counselor is backing me I can't get in too much trouble. I don't know the actual percentages, but I put them all within the range of each letter grade. And I was fair, I didn't put every A- as 1 point below an A. I actually did a lot from memory, if I was close to getting a different grade then I showed that. Guess I'll just have to clear it up with the office.</p>
<p>I would really not worry about getting your admission rescinded. I even dropped a whole class during senior year (calculus 3) and they didnt care. They do, however, ask about your grades so keep up decent grades and these little changes to your app wont matter.</p>