<p>@dmckearan
180$ profit for getting a 5???</p>
<p>Is your school sitting above vast swathes of oil by any chance?</p>
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<p>@Other, he said “pass,” so I assume that means a 3, 4, or 5.</p>
<p>Same I paid like $600 this year. So unfair. And next year…ugh strain on my wallet.</p>
<p>@garfieldliker</p>
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<p>^True, but there’s still a profit, though not as much…</p>
<p>How many exams does your school offer?</p>
<p>*** why does the Collegeboard (a “nonprofit” organization") charge an additional $8 to find your scores by phone? They obviously have them, why don’t they just let you access them online or something like the SAT?? Why the heck do we have to wait 2 more weeks or more (depending on how long the school sits on them) to get our scores???</p>
<p>This is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know approximately what date in July we get them in New York?</p>
<p>^^
It’s not $180 though.</p>
<p>Oh, and my school required $92 (I think) per test this year.</p>
<p>Haha. No oil. I live in a pretty small town. My high school is over 40 years old. The city just now decided it was time to build a new one. </p>
<p>@garfieldliker There is no chance I got 5s on all of them. I’m thinking about $1000ish profit from them though. I plan on using this money for text books, or maybe put it towards a car. My 1987 Buick Lesabre (granny car) is ready to retire.</p>
<p>The city just south of me gives all of its tests at no cost to the students, but they don’t reward them for passing. Also, on a college visit, I met a guy from El Paso who said that his school didn’t charge for the tests and the students get paid $300 for a 3, 4, or 5!</p>
<p>^
Either these schools are full of very rich people or very stupid people that never pass AP tests, which is it?</p>
<p>At my high school, if a person enrolls in the AP course at the school then you don’t have to pay for the test, the school will. I heard that Florida (where I live) is one of the few states that pays for their students’ AP tests.</p>
<p>Yes Vadata, tis true. FL pays for all our exams, but we get no chance at a reward or anything (at least not in my school) I would be making serious bank for college under those systems :(</p>
<p>Try paying $300 per test to students in Montgomery County, Maryland. Hahaha. That sounds amazing. I paid $87 per test, a total of $1600 something. I could earn that back twice over plus my entire summer internship stipend. O_O </p>
<p>Are schools really rolling in that kind of money? Our school district’s facing huge cuts.</p>
<p>We had to pay $30 per exam, and for passing, we don’t get anything. I wish I went to a school that paid me for passing my exams!</p>
<p>To the people complaining that as a nonprofit organization, the CB shouldn’t be charging $8 per call, since at that price, it must be making a profit from those calls: Nonprofit doesn’t mean it can’t make a profit; it just means that it can’t distribute its profits to individual owners or investors. Rather, the money gets re-invested in the business.</p>
<p>On another note, are there official statistics anywhere on the correlation between SAT subject tests and AP tests? My school doesn’t offer AP classes, but I took the SAT Bio M and World History tests and got 800 on Bio and 770 on World History. I’m wondering what I can expect on the AP Bio and World History tests.</p>
<p>Also, I’m wondering which AP math test I should take, and when. I took the SAT Math II subject test this year and got an 800. I’ve finished Geometry, Algebra II and Trig, and Pre-calc, and I’ll take Calculus next year as a junior. Senior year I’ll take a math seminar/independent study.</p>
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There are no such official statistics as far as I know. You should have a great shot at 5’s though.</p>
<p>My school offers:</p>
<p>Calc AB, Stat, English Lang, English Lit, Spanish (to those who are fluent), Bio, Phys B, Both Phys C (no class), Chem, Environmental (no class), Macro, Micro (no class), World, US History, US Gov, and Music Theory</p>
<p>@OtherWindow I don’t think our pass rate is very high. Especially for Phys, Chem, and Theory where there may be 2 people to pass each year out of a class of 30ish.</p>
<p>Thanks, OtherWindow. I guess I’ll know soon enough what my scores are, but I’m getting nervous. I saw Trevor’s tweet on the numbers on the AP World History test, and it looks like a pretty low percentage got 4s or 5s.</p>
<p>Wow, my school here in CA is broke. Our discounts were cut this year so we payed full price, plus had a bunch of teacher layoffs.</p>
<p>^^
This might make you feel a bit better:
<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;