<p>accessible to persons with an educator online account (which is pretty easy to sign up for) includes links to an interesting report “THE 200 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES RECEIVING THE GREATEST NUMBER OF AP GRADES” </p>
<p>What interests me the most is that even at very prestigious colleges, students are only submitting an average of 3 AP scores each.</p>
<p>By CC standards (and the standards of people in certain AP-crazy parts of the country), students who only take a total of 3 APs are pathetic slackers. </p>
<p>I think it’s important for us to realize that CC is giving us a distorted picture of the AP world.</p>
<p>Really? My D did not submit any of her 9 AP scores to colleges. The scores are listed on her transcripts. Is that not sufficient? Her GC said no need to also officially send the scores.</p>
<p>But these include applicants, though, not only matriculating students… right? And these non-matriculating students would only be sending the AP scores they took during their junior year and before.</p>
<p>No, I think these are matriculating students.</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshman at Cornell University, where one would reasonably expect most but not all entering students to have taken AP tests. Cornell does not ask applicants to submit AP scores, but it does ask matriculating students to do so. The number of students submitting AP score reports to Cornell was about 2,500, and the size of the entering class is about 3,000. The numbers make sense.</p>
<p>What is reported in the links is the number of AP tests included on official score reports, and the number of students sending those official score reports, to each college. </p>
<p>Marian raises an interesting point. So students who send scores to the U of Texas send an average of 2.314 test scores each, while to Harvard it’s 2.488 tests per student, and for my alma mater it’s 1.901 per student. (My son has already officially reported five AP test scores to my alma mater.) So, yes, there are still a lot of students who take a couple of AP tests each that they eventually report to some college. Students who take a whole lot more are, at the very least, not strongly reflected in these statistics and likely rather rare at any one college (because such students apply to and enroll at various different colleges). </p>
<p>Here is information about the AP scholar awards, which helps provide a count of students who take a lot of AP tests: </p>
<p>TokenAdult – Is the report you’re sharing with us about matriculating students (i.e., student accepted and attending who are sending in their AP scores to obtain credit)? Or are these scores being sent to colleges as part of the application package? It had really not occurred to us to send D’s AP scores officially to the schools where she is applying.</p>
<p>Also, I read somewhere on CC that only about 600 juniors received National AP Scholar in 2007. Does that seem plausible? There were five just at my D’s small albeit very competitive school.</p>
<p>mammall, most schools do not require submission of formal score reports at the time of application. After a student is accepted, a formal report is generally required before decisions are made about granting advanced placement or course credit.</p>
<p>Actually, I do believe that it is plausible for only 600 JUNIORS to be named National AP Scholars. Most National AP Scholars are named after they have graduated from high school, having taken the many of the necessary exams in May of their senior year.</p>
<p>I knew that Florida alone had 122 juniors that were National Scholars so 600 nationwide sounded way low, but I added them up and, sure enough, there were only 689 total juniors. Sorry about that. Should have checked my own link before I jumped to conclusions.</p>
<p>To answer Mammall’s other question, the figures reported are just test scores received by each college, and distinct students who sent in those scores, so there seems to be no analysis of how many of those students sent in official score reports to gain admission, and how many only sent in those reports after admission to gain credit. But my educated wild guess, agreeing with other replies you have received, is that most students only send in an official report of scores to a college AFTER matriculating, to gain credit toward graduation. And perhaps that results in some undercounting of AP tests at some colleges where students choose not to use AP scores they have in hand to gain advanced standing. See </p>
<p>for the pros and cons of seeking advanced standing at one college, which may have its students’ AP test scores seriously undercounted in the AP testing report I linked in the thread-opening report.</p>
<p>I don’t think S sent in a score report. He listed his AP scores and may have sent a photocopy of the score report he had at the time of application, but he was one of the many students at HYPSM who are eligible for Advanced Standing but choose not to exercise that option.</p>
<p>DS self-reported APs on his applications. If a college asks for verification (i.e., for scholarships, to get off the deferred list, etc.), then by all means we’ll have an official version sent, assuming they don’t want to accept a copy of the score report we already have. Otherwise, wherever he winds up will get the official score report. Heaven knows College Board gets enough of my money!</p>
<p>At UT, number 1 on the list ,and many of the other state schools, the threshold for accepting AP scores for credit is a 4. It is a 5 at HYPMS and many others. Additionally, you typically are not encouraged or sometimes allowed to accept credit for a class in your major unless the score was a 5. </p>
<p>If D decides to go to UT, she has decided to waive credit for her science classes and possibly calculus (she did get 5s) and retake them to help her 1. ease into the college courseload, and 2. get a feel for the pace. I recommended she do this (was on faculty of a couple of colleges and this was routinely our advice to freshmen)</p>
<p>She will take the credits for all courses not in her major that meet her liberal arts requirements to allow her to absorb a year or semester abroad without lengthening her stay as an undergrad and to allow her to take more interesting or eclectic courses. (She already has 6 at UT and may have as many as 13 by graduation). We know students already enrolled at UT who took more AP tests during their first semester because you can’t beat the price of $55 for 3-4 cr
hours, it beats CLEP)</p>