<p>By sending in AP scores, would/could it help in gaining admissions to schools?</p>
<p>Depends on the school - some schools like MIT don’t really care</p>
<p>In certain circumstances, definitely. There’s a academically well-known school in my area. However, its reputation is bigger than its reality. While many of its top students boast impressive AP courses on their transcript, they aren’t getting too many grades above a 3 on the actual exam. What that’s signalling to the ultra-selective schools is that the underlying AP courses aren’t being rigorously taught. I heard an anecdote where an applicant from this school got her AP English teacher to write a rec. The teacher used poor grammar. Can U imagine what that did for her chances?</p>
<p>These are huge red flags for the adcoms. Applicants from this school naturally get a thorough reading – in this situation, a slate of fives on APs would show the adcom that this is a solid candidate – not just one with a fluffed transcript.</p>
<p>Think about it. If you were evaluating the app and both students had a bunch or AP courses on thier transcript and one student sent in the scores (let say 4’s and 5’s) and the other student did not send in the scores, what impression would you have of the two students?</p>
<p>Another point I like to add is do not second guess Adcoms. In one of the books that I read, I think Gatekeepers, one girl did not list an activity that she communicated with inmates and therefore she’s against the death penalty. If she had included that information, her reader would have sympathize with her, she could have gotten in, because he also was against the death penalty. Note, this is not about pros/cons of the death penalty, but about second guessing adcoms. Just list what you have, let them pick you.</p>
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what if people don’t take the test because they can’t afford it?</p>
<p>there ARE ap test fee waivers.</p>
<p>Sending AP test scores, as long as they are not abysmally low, will only help you.</p>
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what about ppl who couldn’t take the test because of extreme illness or had a bad test score because they didn’t feel well?</p>
<p>I know people that have only taken one AP test (but took a lot of AP classes) that got into ivies and MIT…</p>
<p>I’m sure there are people out there that have no APs in their transcripts and get into top schools too. Very rare though, not a norm.</p>
<p>^what if they take IB exams instead of APs?</p>
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<p>Usually, people take IB exams if they attend an IB school. IB and AP are regarded the same in rigor by admission officers. </p>
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<p>Well, then that’s not good for them. I mean you’re supposed to take care of yourself and get a good night’s rest during AP testing in May.</p>
<p>Hah. JHU is lame with it, none of my humanities counted at all. Plus my interviewer said it’s better for you to take the college stamped courses anyway. What a waste of time and money.</p>
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what if it were due to injury, like car accident, concussion, etc.</p>
<p>Problably counselor should write something. But you do need a bit of luck in life, even to stay alive not just for college admissions.</p>
<p>Actually, that’s exactly what happened to a girl in my AP Chem class two years ago. She was allowed to take a late AP test because of the extent of her injury in athletics.</p>
<p>“Hah. JHU is lame with it, none of my humanities counted at all. Plus my interviewer said it’s better for you to take the college stamped courses anyway. What a waste of time and money.”
Well duh. All they want is your money. If they can hold you for 5 years instead of 4, then they made almost 40k extra off of you.</p>
<p>What’s with the questions, bob?</p>
<p>So, like, what if you got abducted by aliens the night before AP Calc and didn’t get enough sleep because you were busy getting probed and brainwashed? And nobody believes you?</p>