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If you want to have the greatest possible chance of admission at some of the hardest to get into colleges, you make the strongest possible case.
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Exactly, and making the strongest possible case means highlighting and reporting your strengths -- not weak spots in areas where reporting is not mandatory. My point has been all along that since reporting AP scores is entirely optional, it is not "dishonest" for the student to mention only the highest scores.
Obviously if the student has a transcript that shows 5 AP courses taken during 11th grade, and they report scores from only 2 of those classes -- the ad com can draw any inference it wants, just as it can draw whatever conclusions it wants from a student's submission of ACT scores without SAT scores, or non-submission of test scores at a test-optional school. That is, if a student elects to report 2 scores, a 4 and a 5 ... and no mention is made of other scores... then the ad com can reasonably conclude that the student either did not sit for the other exams or scored 3 or below.
But it is not "dishonest" to report only the best, most compelling information in any context where the information is optional in the first place. (Which is what tokenadult reported in post #4 as being said on another thread in this forum, purportedly coming from a presentation by an ad com).