<p>I was wondering if anyone had opinions on how much AP scores as well as SAT II scores pertain to admissions, and how much these scores matter, comparing them to your SAT score, GPA, and extracurriculars. </p>
<p>In particular, if you want to go into a certain field, say, chemistry, how much would your chemistry specific GPA/ SAT II score/ AP exam score matter when compared to other scores and extracurriculars? Thanks!</p>
<p>ap scores have zero effect.. im pretty sure that colleges only need them after you are accepted in order to find out what credit you will recieve and what introductory courses you would be able to skip,,,, sat 2 scores are good to show your level of understanding for the particular subject,. they cant necessarily make you or break you, but you should be a decent amount above the national average (on collegeboard.com), colleges wont decide whether to accept you from a gpa for a certain subject.. nor will they calculate it</p>
<p>Do you have a link to the national averages?</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree about the not calculating the GPA for a certain subject. But I would've thought that APs would pertain to a lot, since it's showing that you can do college level work, whereas the SAT II is testing high school level work- any ideas to that thought that I have?</p>
<p>This is entirely dependant on the college. Some schools require a certain number of SAT IIs, and use the scores as an admissions factour. Other schools don't look at the scores at all until after a decision is made. </p>
<p>Do NOT head into the admissions process thinking your AP exam scores won't matter. As I understand it, at a number of schools they do not. However, at some schools they are highly considered. I also know at least one school that determines GPAs in AP classes seperately as well as considering them in the overall GPA. </p>
<p>In response to your second question, they are both means to the same end: for the college, if it considers the scores in admissions, to compare you to other students nationally. An AP class means nothing if everyone in your school scores no where higher than a 3 on the exam, so you end up with a string of 2s.</p>
<p>That makes sense that different schools weigh things differently.</p>
<p>If perchance everybody at your school were to score only 3s and below on the AP exam, and if the college wanted students with scores of only 5, would the school not count this against the students from that school? (for, the teacher must've not adequetely prepared the students for the exam). Or, would they actually still compare you to other students who scored higher than you from other schools?</p>
<p>And out of interest, would you mind telling me that school that you know calculates a separate GPA for AP courses?</p>