<p>^ SteveMA, I think you’re talking about college supplements. The Common App just says “report your AP scores” and obviously doesn’t ask you to report only the AP test scores for which you will seek credit.</p>
<p>Re: school districts that require AP students to take the test (provided the school and not the student has paid for it), the flip side of that practice is, schools came under fire for discouraging weak students from testing because if only the best kids took the AP tests, the school’s AP test result stats looked great!</p>
<p>Re: selectively self-reporting AP test scores, I’m with Pizzagirl and others who’ve stated it’s absolutely okay and doesn’t result in making a false representation by omission. AP test scores are optional achievements (even though they may not feel so optional if you’re at a school that requires you take them!). AP tests are not and never will be <em>required</em> for college admission because (1) no one from any camp will stand for more standardized testing on top of ACT/SAT (plus SAT II), and (2) AP tests are not and never will be uniformly <em>required</em> by American high schools (and a number of schools have dropped AP curriculum altogether), so it is impossible for colleges to fairly judge and compare applicants, even those from the same school, based on an optional test. It’s the equivalent of a national math or piano competition score or a USTA (tennis) ranking…if you put yourself out there to be assessed and are proud of how you scored or ranked that day, report it! But if you were sick, distracted, unprepared or simply weren’t good enough that day, then you can and should choose to not report your score!</p>
<p>TXArtemis–No, this was on the actual applications for the various colleges, before the Common app was around, at least in our area.</p>
<p>Ok-Looked it up because we haven’t used the common app before. </p>
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<p>This is from the common app and the section lists it as AP/IB/SAT II’s so if you get a 1 on the AP Bio test but get 800 on the SAT II Bio, you can put 800 and forget the 1. It is also self-reported information, you can choose not to report any of this too.</p>
<p>You’re using a 2008 app and telling someone else that they’re using outdated info?</p>
<p>Sorry, but that made me laugh :). </p>
<p>For those who use the common app- is there a limit to how many AP/IB scores you can list? I can’t remember whether U of M was using common app when I applied but I do know that on at least one of my apps (my other schools were not common app schools) there was a limit.</p>
<p>DrGoogle–the first posts I made was the question the school asked on their actual app, which we used most recently about 2 years ago. Then I went to the common app site to see what it said on the common app because we haven’t used that yet and took that quote and put it hear because of the confusion over what they really want reported and why.</p>
<p>Post #106, I just looked at the new Common App and it has not changed. I didn’t think the comment about which courses are you requesting AP credit sounds like it’s from the Common App and it is not.</p>
<p>Because I felt it helped clarify what colleges were looking for/asking for in regards to AP scores which is totally relevant to this thread. The information I had from 2010 was much more current than your information. Also, not all colleges are on the common app. The schools our kids have attended and some our next two are considering are not on the common app. 3 of the schools our son is applying to are not on the Common App.</p>
<p>With 25-30,000 high schools in the US, it seems a little arrogant to suggest that your own kids’ high school looms so very large that of course adcoms <em>everywhere</em> would know its specific policies.</p>
<p>These two factors weighed in when I formed my opinion:
the student is struggling to maintain a B in the AP class and
the school has a poor record preparing students for this particular AP exam,
but I would also say I think there have been many other important points made on this thread.</p>
<p>I found an interesting link a moment ago. I would not assume this policy applies to other schools, but it does provide some helpful information about UCs. See the second paragraph.</p>
<p>Deborah, the UCs is not on Common App, but I don’t believe the UCs ask this type of questions(which courses are you requesting AP credit). OP originally stated that her son might not pass the AP test which means he might not get at least a 3. Which schools would give credit for AP test of less than 3?