<p>Usually all standardized test scores will be reported on a student's official transcript (unless a student gives the school a written request to exclude, for example, the AP scores).</p>
<p>This would include SAT, ACT, AP, ASVAB, SAT subject tests, and in NY, all Regents Exam Scores.</p>
<p>All colleges have a pretty good idea of the rigor of the particular high school from which an applicant will graduate. They have a scale with which they "adjust" gpas to "level the playing field" for each applicant, in order to put each on a more even basis. (Told to me by an admissions officer from a private college, in a "social" conversation). </p>
<p>Standardized scores give an even better view of students from geographically diverse backgrounds.
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Zaphod - if a kid wants to show competence, brilliance and talent...they take as many AP tests as they can. Those are the tests WORTH something at all colleges and the tests that can actually HELP validate classes at USNA. If my kid had the choice to take SAT II's or AP's....it's a no brainer. Anyone else out there agree or disagree with me?
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<p>Ah! I had forgotten about AP's (even though I took a few).</p>
<p>CM: Good to see you back, hope all is well with your daughter at USNA! </p>
<p>Agree with your last post, however can't help but feel that in some cases the USNA has a very limited experience with a particular high school (lack of applicants, no attendees)- for example, while our son's HS has had a sprinkling of applications, and appointments, to USMA each year (and isolated ones to USAFA), the school has had only 3 applicants to the USNA over the last 19 years that guidance could recall, and none with an appointment. Our son is hoping to change that as the first one to attend- hopefully with others to follow! The good news is that there are 2 more rising seniors interested in the class of 2011!</p>