I’m a first-gen student and there aren’t very many resources available to me for deciding a lot of college related things. I’m a rising senior and I’ve taken a lot of AP’s and SAT’s and ACT’s and whatnot, and simply don’t know which scores I should send off. I’m not even sure which schools I am applying to except for Ohio State, but will probably try to go for the really nice ones like Stanford etc. Which of these scores should I send and does it hurt to send low scores in addition to high ones? Thanks!
ACT:
- C:35 (E:33 M:34 R:35 S:36) (try 1)
- C:35 (E:35 M:36 R:34 S:36) (try 2)
- I’m gonna retake in September just because… I know I don’t have to but I want to
SAT:
- 2170 (CR:680 M:800 W:690)
- I will retake this test as well in October… I’m not very satisfied with my score here and did a lot worse than what I was expecting and getting on practice tests…
SAT II:
- Chem: 750
- US History: 690
- Physics: 800
- Math 2: 800
- I’m done taking these tests after I got the two perfect scores, but would it hurt my application to send the two lower scores? I don’t know at all here.
AP:
- Chem: 4
- US History: 4
- Calc BC: 5 (expected)
- US Gov: 5 (expected)
- German: 5 (expected)
- English Lang: 4/5 (expected)
- Physics C: Mech: 3/4/5 (I don’t think I did that well and honestly have no idea what my score could be…)
- Physics C: E&M: 3/4/5 (ditto)
- I’ve heard from people that you don’t even submit AP scores, but I’ve also heard that you self-report them (whatever that means). Do they even affect applications? Should I submit my Physics scores even if I get 3s? Do the 4s hurt me at all? Do I even submit any of them at all?!
I’ve also taken the National German Exam help by the American Association of Teachers of German as a Freshman and Sophomore, but this year my teacher made a slight error and wasn’t able to. The first time I got a silver award for being 88th percentile, and the second time I got the gold award as 97th percentile. These were national rankings and I was up against some native speakers (I started in 8th grade) so I think they’re pretty good. I did receive the PAD award trip and spent three and a half weeks in Germany with a host family to study the language and travel. It was really fun and very competitive to get into, only some 44 students in the nation and one in my state got it.
Sorry I put in a lot of stuff here, but I just don’t what to do with my scores and which ones to submit etc. Thanks for any help!