<p>yea i think MIT only has like 6 blanks...and if you are taking more than that, then you can just put down your best scores...</p>
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No college I applied to required me to send off my AP scores to them, so I just filled in the boxes for which ones I had taken.
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<p>I somehow doubt that colleges take your word for it. Did you send them SAT scores? I believe these are all sent together, though I could be wrong...</p>
<p>My advice to you: get a mirror, stand in front of it, and start practicing saying "would you like fries with that?" because the 3 on an AP exam does nothing but demonstrate your complete lack of ability to ever succeed in life.</p>
<p>Sorry, I'm in a country that doesn't understand sarcasm right now, and it's making me a little crazy.</p>
<p>Seriously, report the 3, and then move on with your life.</p>
<p>^^I don't agree with your insistence that the OP lacks perspective. He didn't say that he was going to have to work at a fast food joint for the rest of his life. You would expect that a place that takes the top people in the country would have high standards. As a general strategy, you might as well cover all your bases and get excellent scores in everything unless you are sacrificing something more important. There's no need to freak out about people having a lack of perspective.</p>
<p>So don't report a low score unless you have to. If they have a spot for 6 AP's, list the ones that are "5"s.</p>
<p>wait so what colleges actually want the ap scores officially reported?</p>
<p>no, we are talking about self-reporting. Eventually, you do have to have them sent officially, but that is for placement purposes.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I sent in my SAT scores, but these do not include AP scores (curse you college board for trying to make an extra buck.) I didn't feel like spending the extra money, and colleges don't ask for them, so I didn't use the college AP reporting services and just self-reported my scores as requested on the various applications. None of my online folders noted anything about receiving AP scores, while they did show that they had all received my SATs.</p>
<p>I think collegealum is correct, at least this method worked out for me when I was applying to colleges. When I had more APs to report than room for scores given by the colleges I would put down all the ones I had taken in past years because I thought the college could assume that I would take APs for my senior year AP classes. </p>
<p>My opinion: 3's aren't a big deal, I would put it down anyway because it shows you are comfortable with the score and frankly I doubt colleges will care much.</p>
<p>umm i was reading harvards application sheet (2008) and it said on there you self report your scores and it will not ask for your scores right now from collegeboard but will after you get in (or something along those lines)</p>
<p>and it gave you like 6 blanks to put scores/when taking upcoming AP test...</p>
<p>when collegeboard sends SATs and stuff i dont think they send APs with it, i think everything is seperated...</p>
<p>lol i got a 3 too...im not going to erase it off collegeboard...but the good thing is that its comp sci A, i can still take AB and if i get a better score (and probalby better subscore for A section), my school will take the A score of the high school transcript (yes our high school puts AP scores on there) and im just not gonna report the A score (since there wont be enough blnaks) as ill probalby be taking up to 9 or so AP tests...</p>
<p>Uh, you're totally fine.</p>