AP Scores - do they matter?

irishbrigade
Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:00:18 +0000

Legacies are admitted at about a 50% rate, so if you are a legacy and have credentials in the normally accepted range you are in good shape. Your son’s scores are slightly below the average at ND, so I agree with the advice to take the SAT once more – another 40-60 points will be a big plus. A class rate in the top 5% - 10% is also good. One question to think about is the competitiveness of the high school. If the top 5% of the school are going to Ivies and the equivalent, then rank slightly below that looks better. If that’s the case then that is something that the school will normally address in its profile that it sends with the transcript, to give the college a sense of the competitiveness of the school.