Should I send AP scores to Brown from collegeboard? I have reported the scores on my common app, but I wasn’t too willing to spend 15 dollars sending the scores, if they didn’t have any impact on the admissions. I am an international student btw.
No. Just send the scores to the college you will be attending. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your money.
ski, Do AP Scores have the slightest of effect on admission decisions for Brown? I mean, if they do (however small the effect), I wouldn’t want to miss on that chance.
I am from India and self prepared for AP’s. Here, quite few students give AP’s (compared to the number who give SAT etc). So I think that sending AP scores might give me a small edge. But I could be totally wrong.
You’re already self-reporting the scores on your Common App, right? No need to have the official scores sent. You’re already showing that you took the APs.
Nope. There is no “reading between the lines” in the Brown admission process. If they wanted you to send your scores, they would require it. By reporting your scores on the app, you have done all that is needed for the admission process.
but @bruno14, will only reporting the scores be all? Will they even believe me?
I’ll be the third person who chimes in and says you don’t need to send them. If your SAT/ACT scores and grades are high enough, that’s all Brown needs to know about you academically.
But it looks like you don’t want to believe us. So if your parents’ money grows on trees, go ahead and spend it on sending AP scores.
There is a chance that even if you send your AP scores, the admissions office won’t see them. Unlike SAT scores which are sent to the admissions office, AP scores are sent to the registrar’s office because they are used for granting advanced standing or credit once a student is enrolled at Brown. Will the registrar’s office see your scores and realize they don’t belong to a current student and then forward them to the admissions office? I don’t know but it seems unlikely.
Thanks @ciervo and firedrain. I didn’t know that AP scores were sent to the registrar’s office.