Self Reporting AP Scores

Applying to College
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<p>If you opt to self report AP scores, can you opt to only self report some of them and not all?</p>

<p>For example, for my Junior Year score results, I got a 5,5,4,4,3 and I don't want to self-report the 3 mainly because it is closest to the major I am looking at, and it would be considered sub-standard by the colleges I am looking at.</p>

<p>So, should I self-report all but the 3, should I leave them all blank and simply write "AP Scholar with Distinction" on my resume and simply let them wonder, or should I just bite the bullet and report all of them?</p>

<p>Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, especially by those who have already been victims of the college application process :)</p>

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<p>Report all of them. A 3 is not bad, and can even get you credit or more advanced placement at many schools. Having taken 5 AP exams as a junior is an achievement in and of itself!</p>

<p>AP scores don't factor that much in admissions.</p>

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<p>Yes, but can't a 3 hurt you at schools like HYPMS?</p>

<p>What I really want to know is are you allowed to report some of your AP scores but not all? I know reporting them at all is entirely optional, but is it considered wrong if you pick and choose the ones you want to report?</p>

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<p>If you write "AP Scholar with Distinction" and they only see 3 scores self-reported, and that award required at least 5 tests, then you just raise more questions. I would just report them all, but that's just me. But if the score was a 1 or a 2, then i don't know, that might make me think twice.</p>

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<p>With AP Scholar you need 5 scores with 3+</p>

<p>I am thinking of reporting 4 scores, and not the last one. They can only assume that my minimum score on the remaining one is 3 or greater.</p>

<p>But am I allowed to do this? Are you allowed to report only some of them even if the common app and supplement have slots for AP scores?</p>

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<p>AP Scholar is 3 scores of 3+ </p>

<p>AP:</a> Scholar Awards</p>

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<p>I'd just report it. What if the schools see you took the AP class and assume you got a 2 or 1? Then not reporting it could hurt you. Schools won't reject you based on one 3 on an AP exam.</p>

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<p>I meant AP Scholar with Distinction.</p>

<p>Bleh lol</p>

<p>Can anyone answer if it is allowed or not though?</p>

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<p>well i would say that if you choose not to report the score, then don't list that you even took it at all on the common app section. if they ask about it, then idk...tell them you cancelled it?</p>

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<p>They're going to see all of them anyways...you can't cherry-pick which to report or not if you're not going to report all, probably. You haven't cancelled your score or anything (not sure how that works..)</p>

<p>But btw, this worrying is useless - a 3 is fine, no matter what school. It's not like you have ten 3's. You seem to have majority 4's and 5's...chlll.</p>

<p>I know people that got in with 2's, and 1's. My cousin, infact, had a 1 and a 2 but majority of 5's and went to Yale. Er...AP scores are important but probably not deciding factors in admissions.</p>