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If you think that the "only" school where you could possibly be happy is Harvard (or some other school that requires AP scores on its app) ... and if you have a "low" AP score ... you might want to have a back-up school in mind.
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An important point. More generally, anybody applying to any of the colleges listed in post #1, which are all highly selective, had better think first about a good "safety" college that also offers academic challenge but additionally offers a sure bet for admission.
I take it that reply #27 is based on attending one of Exploring College Options sessions, which is something I did in my town. I don't recall, at the session I attended, a question that was quite as specific about AP scores as such. But I think what post #27 reports makes sense: the main issue for the college admission officers is that high school students take a challenging academic program (that WAS said at the program I attended) and in many cases a high school AP course, even one that yields a "low" student score on an AP test, may be more academically challenging than the "same" course taught at a local (community) college. Here in Minnesota, a lot of the students in the Twin Cities suburbs mull over the choice between going to a suburban high school with a lot of AP courses or going to the state university for dual-enrollment courses under the state's PSEO program. The highly selective colleges with a national draw admit some students of each kind each year. The main issue is not to take wimpy courses. It happens that both the male and the female AP state scholars from Minnesota in the most recent year are on their way to Harvard in the fall, but it certainly is imaginable to gain admission to Harvard from this state with fewer (or lower) AP test scores than what those students had.