AP Scores..

ivyparent43
Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:24:34 +0000

Universities see on your transcript how many AP courses you’ve taken. If you’ve taken 5, and only report 4 scores (or zero scores or other) it doesn’t take a whole lot for the admissions office to determine that you scored poorly on the test result(s) that you didn’t share with them.

Their alternative choice would be to assume that you took the AP class but for some reason didn’t bother to take the AP exam. Why would they assume that, given that you’re a motivated student taking tough classes and applying to highly selective universities?

Occam’s razor: The simplest of two theories is usually the correct one. The simplest solution here is that you didn’t report the score because it was a low one.