Is it necessary to submit all your AP Scores to colleges you apply to? Are they used in the admissions examination process or just used for placement?
If I am in IB but take AP tests, will the colleges overlook bad AP scores even though most IB examinations happen at the end of your senior year? Does it work the other way around, that a good AP score can cancel out a bad IB score?
sorry its alot of questions, but can someone answer them???
<p>It is not necessary to send AP scores during the application process most of the time. They may ask for details, but not for an official report, usually.</p>
<p>And I don't think things "cancel" out as if it never happened. It's all under consideration and seen as a whole as well as the individual areas.</p>
<p>bumpppppppp</p>
<p>can it be an unofficial report?
(like, a slip of paper with AP scores on it)</p>
<p>...is it a problem to write it in your resume?</p>
<p>No college requires that AP scores be submitted (like SAT/ACT and SAT II scores). A lot of colleges ask on the application what AP courses you took. A few colleges ask for the scores on the application form.</p>
<p>If you are only a junior next year and you have a score that you want cancelled, go to collegeboard.com and find out how to cancel it.</p>
<p>here's how to cancel scores (scroll down a bit):
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_rep.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd_rep.html</a></p>
<p>do you need to send scores if you are a freshman, sophmore, or junior? you might not know where you want to go to college right, so how do you decide where to send it, or is "sending only an option for seniors?</p>
<p>No, if you every send them at all, just send them when you apply.</p>
<p>you can send scores whenever you have any. You don't have to be a senior. You get one freebie score report per year, so you might choose to go ahead and use it if you take exams prior to senior year. Of course, if you are not sure how you will do you should wait to see your scores before sending them anywhere.</p>
<p>It is possible to send scores with the exam (or seperately) prior to the senior exam year. However, it's not very advantageous to do so since you are most likely unsure and you'll eventually need the full report anyways.</p>
<p>Yes, you'll need to send a complete report at the end of senior year to the college you plan to attend. But using the freebie reports prior to senior year means that at least some of your colleges will have some of your scores directly from CB when you apply, w/o costing you anything. It isn't the whole enchilada, but hey, they price is right!</p>
<p>There is some advantage to seeing what the scores are before you send them. For the end of junior year, you may get one freebie, but you don't know what they are going to see. No college requires that the AP score report be sent to them like the SAT and SAT II scores.</p>
<p>so then if no colleges require ap like sat and sat IIs, do they use ap scores in the admission process just like other standardized tests by college board?</p>
<p>Nobody requires that the AP score report be sent. If they don't ask for the scores on the application, I don't see how they view them as a priority item. Some schools do ask for them on the application but there doesn't seem to be that many.</p>
<p>Taking the courses (when they are offered at your high school) is very important. Probably the most important thing you can do is to take a difficult and challenging curriculum because that shows them something about yourself. The actual AP exam scores seem to be less important. </p>
<p>There is some talk about this among educators. The main topics involve getting AP courses taught at poorly performing high schools, the value of the course without the exam being taken, and whether the courses are really rigorous enough to substitute for college credit.</p>
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so then if no colleges require ap like sat and sat IIs, do they use ap scores in the admission process just like other standardized tests by college board?
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Colleges cannot require them because not all high schools offer AP courses. That does not mean that they are unimportant. Many high schools do not offer math beyond calculus either, and no college requires it. But it is still obviously important (and impressive) to let colleges know if you have that. Even if the app doesn't have enough spaces for all your math courses, you would obviously figure out a way to squeeze your extra math courses on there, right? Same with good AP scores.</p>
<p>Rachel Toor, former Duke ad com, writes about AP scores on p. 92-93 of College Confidential:</p>
<p>"Although the scores on the (AP) tests were meant, originally, for placement into higher level college courses and were not intended to be used in college admissions, they are. We expect students to score 5s on their tests. If they get a couple of 4s, that's okay, but anything below a 4 doesn't help much. We don't require that students report these scores for admission; if they do, however, we use them. I always told students that if they scored below a 4, not to report it to us."</p>
<p>Michele Hernandez, former Dartmouth adcom, says on pp. 119-120 of Acing the College Application:</p>
<p>"The second key point (and this is a major flaw of the common application) is that you will notice there is no space at all for either AP or IB scores. That might give you the impression that these scores don't count, but that is not the case. In fact, since both AP and IB tests are considered the most difficult and collegelike tests around, colleges sometimes weigh these even more heavily than SAT Is and SAT IIs.... A strong showing on these tests can counterbalance less than stellar scores elsewhere... Do not leave out these scores even if they are not perfect."</p>
<p>Toors was just saying that if they see anything, they are only impressed by 4's and 5's. A 3 doesn't help at Duke.</p>
<p>Considering where Hernadez is coming from on other topics, I think she is saying that it is okay to report a 4 ("less than stellar scores").</p>
<p>At any rate, every adcom is going to have personal preferences. Some adcoms grew up on a farm and are going to love rural applicants. Some adcoms played ball in high schools, and are going to love athletes. Some adcoms were Eagle scouts and are going to love scouts. Hernandez likes AP scores. They aren't on the common app and only a few colleges ask for them on their own app forms.</p>
<p>if its the fact that you took the class that matters, then does it even matter if you took the test? Or what if I took an IB class and a AP test in the same subject? For example, I took IB History of the Americas, the same year, I took the AP US history test because they cover alot of the same topics. Since its the fact I took the AP class (which I did not), then is the score irrelevant (well not completely irrelevant, just less relevant)?</p>
<p>uh...test matters
taking the class means only half of it</p>