<p>I'm a senior who is taking 5 AP classes. The school I'm hoping to get into is UCLA, or another UC school.</p>
<p>My situation is: There are some classes I find a bit useless. I want to be an engineer, so I don't think I will need AP Psychology credits in college, so I want to skip on the exam.</p>
<p>Will the college even SEE that I didn't take the exam before I'm admitted? Will this be enough to reject me if I'm borderline? Why should I spend $90 on this exam, if I'm overlooking some valuable reasons? (Eg: The credits will count for blank)</p>
<p>Shouldn’t your school have already accepted or rejected you? Or were you deffered? If you were deffered then maybe you should take the AP tests to give the college more reasons to bring you in. Please clarify.</p>
<p>I sent in my University of Michigan application in late October and I was accepted in mid-December and I am in my senior year. I am just confused because your application process should be over now shouldn’t it?</p>
<p>@himatg
I have applied to all my schools already, but UCs give their acceptance/rejection letters at different times. UCLA sends them out in late March and Berkeley even later I think.</p>
<p>However I have been accepted into UCR already, but that isn’t where I want to go.</p>
<p>@misswhite
So basically, the scary warnings everyone has been saying “take your AP exam or the college will see you slacked off!” don’t matter?</p>
<p>Hopefully AP Psych isn’t a course I’ll be needing for mechanical engineering (I wouldn’t see why I would need it, unless you need a certain number of credits in electives like high school, then it might be helpful)…</p>
<p>Okay well the other poster brought up a good point. AP Exams are taken in May and results are given a while later, so by the time your college “figures out” whether you are taking the test or not will not matter at all. By that time you will hopefully already be accepted.</p>
<p>And at that point it will not make any difference. AP Exams can only help you. Its YOUR choice who you want to send the scores to. So if you take them and do well it can only help. If you do poorly or if you don’t take a test it won’t come into the admission process, especially in late June or July.</p>
<p>Good luck and hopefully the letter you get is an acceptance one. =)</p>
<p>The 5 AP’s in senior year will look damn impressive. I only took 2 this year because I am worried the senioritis will come and hurt me at some point.</p>
<p>Thanks himatg, that cleared things up a bit. And yeah, first semester I was fine, but this semester I’m feeling the senioritis. I hit 3 A’s and 3 B’s last semester, so I’m just trying to maintain that to avoid being rejected at the last minute.</p>
<p>Good luck man really. Education keeps getting more and more important unfortunately. Hardworkers like people working at Ford etc. are not very successful anymore.</p>
<p>Post their response when it comes (It will be an acceptance letter man. Crossing my fingers for you.)</p>
<p>Check with your school. Some have strict policies that require you to take the test. One kid at our school refused to take the AP exam for some Calculus course, and the teacher failed him for the year. At our school, when you commit to an AP class, you commit to taking the test.</p>
<p>but come april, what if your decision for your dream school was waitlist? lol. then wouldn’t not taking the exam make you a less favorable candidate for acceptance?</p>