Should i rescore my ap?

This year i took 3 AP exams (as a sophomore) and was surprised to see a 3 among my 5s. I had received a 3 on my AP English lang exam and was so shocked because I received consistent 8 and 9s (9 is the highest score you can get) on my essays and decent scores on the MCQ. I was predicted a 5 three times throughout the year so you can see how unbelievably strange i found my score to be. So I thought maybe my teacher was a lenient scorer, but students who were a consistent 5/6 on their essays in the same class received a 3 on their exam as well which makes no sense. And even so, I found the FRQs to be easier on the real exam than any other practice test I had taken before hand. I’ve read about rescoring and I know how rare it is for college board to make a mistake, but I think I should do it to at least put my mind at ease. I’m not sure if I should though because I’ve heard scores can also drop which would make matters worse since I at least get half credits for passing, but there’s a very slim chance this would occur as well. What do you guys think? If my score were to actually increase even to a 4 (and again I know this is very very rare) i would get 6 credits for the course instead of 3. If not, at least I know I’ve exhausted every single possibility and be able to come to terms with the fact that I performed poorly on exam day.

PS: I know only the multiple choice can be rescored. Also, if it helps I’m much stronger in the FRQ section than MCQ but to have gotten a 3 on the exam, that means I would’ve only scored a 15-38% on the MCQ which seems awfully low (I usually score a 70-80%).

If you really need to know you’ve exhausted every possibility, then spending $30 (or $40) would be the cost. You seem to be aware that the chances of a score change are near zero, though not zero.

I’m just going to wait until August when sample responses are released and see if maybe I just completely misinterpreted part of the exam or something. I guess I’m still very shocked by my score because if there was any AP I was sure I was scoring a 5 on, it was going to be AP Lang. My teacher would even make comments about how I could teach the class myself if I wanted to. Maybe I’m just in denial… lol. But for real though, my only worry is the possibility of my score going down and also the fact that even knowing how rare a score change is, I would still have a small sliver of hope which I shouldn’t carry because of how unlikely it is that my score is incorrect. I don’t want to seem like I think I’m the 1 in a million case, but not having my exam rescored would always leave me wondering if I in fact was.

If the money isn’t an issue go ahead and request a rescore. Just be happy if the score changes but don’t plan on that definitely being the case.