<p>Me too EMKaitlyn, that’s why i asked him where he lives.</p>
<p>Any luck on CB yet? No scores?</p>
<p>Why am I so impatient? I can knit; I can babysit small children and never so much as raise my voice; I can do so many things and concentrate fully without even getting the urge to complain. I’m sitting on the biggest secret I’ve ever kept right now, and I’m more than willing to wait until it’s time for the big unveil. Why is this so difficult for me?</p>
<p>i don’t have my ap number, but if i call up tomorrow and have my social security # with me, is that enough?</p>
<p>Yes, if you put your SS# on your AP registration form</p>
<p>Chaldo, granted if they’re available tomorrow.</p>
<p>well regardless whenever they’re out. i don’t think i put my ss# on the form actually now that i remember. what else do they ask for to identify you?</p>
<p>Yeah, let’s stop betting on it.
I am just going to assume Friday.
Disappointment isn’t worth it.</p>
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<p>You can call and speak to customer service, and they’ll ask you for your name, school name, tests taken, and… I think that’s about it. Then they’ll give you your AP# and you can call the scores by phone line.</p>
<p>ok thanks. hopefully you’re right but i’m not betting on it simply because saying your name, school name, etc. doesn’t really identify you</p>
<p>Well, I just donated platelets today. As I predicted, it was a good way to kill some time. Hopefully scores will be up tomorrow.</p>
<p>I still don’t get why it takes so long for a piece of paper to get to the east coast. Anyone that can explain that?</p>
<p>Low class mail?</p>
<p>I don’t understand why a piece of paper sent from the east coast takes so long to get to the east coast.</p>
<p>Here is why. There are over 150,000 students who take AP exams in the US and other countries. CollegeBoard can’t simply send 150,000 envelopes in one day; they have to spread it out and follow a schedule of sending out paper scores. There are so many scores that need to be sent that the best way for them is to follow some sort of order. Because of this, they choose to mail from West coast to East coast. It is logical to send them staggered each day so that the West coast receives them around the same time the East coast does, ie. send out the farthest ones (west coast) then send out the closest ones (east coast), however, there are so many AP students that will receive their scores that it takes over 10 days to send all the West and Central US scores. They mail out as many as they can each day (starting with West) but it takes a colossal effort to send out these 150,000 envelopes and this takes them around 15 days, starting on July 1st with the West Coast. International students come last.</p>
<p>This was the response from the AP customer service.</p>
<p>tl;dr: You can’t send out 150,000 scores at once in the mail. They chose to start with West Coast and work their way to the East Coast.</p>
<p>If each envelope is 2 ounces, then that’s 18750 pounds of AP scores or 9.375 tons.</p>
<p>Guys, sorry to go off-topic, but in my two years of taking AP, they’ve always told me that it’s best to be consistent when filling out your information. If, let’s say, next year I want to write down my SS#, and these last two years I haven’t, would it lead to any issue?</p>
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Good explanation, I know it’s way more than 150,000 envelopes to, considering about 387,000 people took the US History test last year. It’s probably closer to 1,500,000 envelopes. (maybe you left off a zero by accident though)</p>
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<p>That would definitely cause a problem. Don’t put down your SS# next year.</p>
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<p>I’m sure we could find the exact number if we looked in the AP Report to the Nation (or whatever it’s called) for the 2010 testing year.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no need to put your SSN on your AP exams anyway, EddieAP. Your AP number is plenty enough identification already! 
Your SSN is one of the most precious numbers associated with you and you should give it out as little as absolutely possible in your lifetime!</p>
<p>^I don’t think he left off a zero, due to his comma placement.</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/Number-of-Exams-per-Student-2010.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/Number-of-Exams-per-Student-2010.pdf</a></p>
<p>According to this, your estimate of the number of envelopes is about double the actual amount, assuming it didn’t change that much from 2010 to 2011.</p>