<p>Help me out here!
My guidance counselor is a bit of an idiot - he used to be a gym teacher and knows absolutely nothing about colleges. Its frustrating to say the least.
He says colleges don't look at your AP scores from junior year - is that true?
I was so sure colleges DID, because how else would they know if the AP class you took was truly rigorous or not? (As in, was that A an easy A or a hard A?)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>True- colleges don’t care about your scores. Mostly, it’s self-reported scores until you enroll.</p>
<p>thanks romanigypsyeyes - but how do they know if the A was an easy/hard A?</p>
<p>romani, are you sure? I thought AP scores were taken into consideration?</p>
<p>Well, jac, you CAN report the score if you want. But mostly, they don’t care. </p>
<p>Glasses, yes. I’ve never heard of actually sending scores to a school when you apply. It’s self-reported.</p>
<p>Rank, rank, rank, the joys of rank.</p>
<p>I thought that they were acknowledged.</p>
<p>It really depends which type of colleges you are applying to. I would say most colleges don’t care, but for the top 30 and HYPMS especially, it will definitely help you to have high scores. Like others have said, they are self reported on the college applications. But you still want to score high on APs because there are certain awards such as AP scholar and you get placed into higher classes once you attend college.</p>
<p>Schools may also assume you did badly on your AP if you don’t report it. Who wouldn’t want to report all 5’s? But that’s not always the case</p>
<p>But college admissions absolutely do not look at your senior APs in order to make their decision</p>
<p>Is it worth taking them?</p>
<p>I have to pay over $100 per test.</p>
<p>^ my schools requires that you take them. But the benefits are that you can place out of intro classes in college which means you could graduate earlier since you don’t have to take as many classes. There are also awards such as AP scholar that look good on resumes. They also look good on college applications if you do well, because they solidify your high GPA and show that your classes are rigorous, since its a national test based on school work. </p>
<p>Overall it is DEFINITELY worth taking them</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification.</p>
<p>I was just curious regarding their weight in the application process.</p>
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<p>Yes, yes oh Goddess yes! </p>
<p>$100 for a test that will probably get you out of a 3-4 credit class. Average cost for a credit hour is say around $300. $300 x 3 = $900. </p>
<p>Would you rather pay nearly $1,000 or $100??</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t realize that there would be that much of a difference!</p>
<p>Thanks for elaborating on that.</p>
<p>Is it true that BC can give u 9 credits and at some schools, such as Georgetown, Chem gives you 9 or 10. That is what one of my teachers said.</p>
<p>^ BC can give you a lot. So can AP languages. </p>
<p>Not sure about chem. I’ve only heard it gets you out of intro to chem- 3-5 credits.</p>
<p>^And I’ve heard that Chem also involves a lot of tough negotiation for those 3-5 credits. A lot of top schools require a look at your lab book before doling out credit.</p>
<p>^oh well…but I might enjoy doing the lab in Chem I when I go to college since I want to be chemist. But if someone would like to object to that, go ahead.</p>
<p>If you’re planning on majoring in anything chem related, you’d probably have to retake the course in college anyways. </p>
<p>It’s just that having a lab book/good AP score could potentially get you out of it…</p>
<p>getting out of first semester Chem is slim for me since my AP Chem class only did two labs.</p>
<p>Ugh. Really?</p>
<p>The only merit to my school’s chem class is that we have a lab every week. We don’t learn any actual chem though so I have to self-study everything (for the tests and the AP exam).</p>