5 AP scores for college app. More than half are low! Help!

Josh05
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:34:37 +0000

Took all AP classes offered. In my city, there aren’t many AP classes for the first three years of high school in all schools.

Sophomore year:
Took 4 honors and 1 AP class
Bio (H): 3
Euro (AP): 3
I didn’t realize how difficult the AP exams were so I just learned the material but didn’t take the time to actually take some practice tests because for me, I need to get use to the test itself in order to score well.

Transferred to a new school
Junior year: 5 Honors and 1 AP class
Chem (H): probably a 1 or 2 - just wanted to see if I can do it but didn’t really study until the week before in my weakest subject in school
English (H): most likely a 5, possibly a 4
USH (AP): most likely a 5, could be 4 if somehow I was really unlucky

Senior year: will take
AP Physics
AP Calc
AP English Lit
AP Gov’t
AP Econ most likely
French 4 Honors (I suggested to have AP but my class refused to allow it and my teacher is one of those who asks students for advise)
I know. They offer a bombardment of AP classes senior year and senior year only :(

But by the time I take the next AP exams, college applications would be totally done with no need to send additional info of myself since decisions would have already been made by then. I won’t send the scores for the ones I got 3s or lower since it’s not worth the bother but that leaves only 2 scores.

Do colleges care about that? Especially since I took AP Euro as a class and don’t send my score in for that? Or will the fact that I took all the APs and Honors (as much as allowed at least by the administration) in both schools plus having all AP and H classes next year help me more?